Kevin O’Leary, CBC entertainer and token arch-capitalist, is very fond of dividends. He thunders on about them like a robber baron of yore. But he also happens to be right. Stocks that pay generous dividends have been very good performers, and that comes as no surprise to clever widows and the odd orphan, who’ve been on the dividend bandwagon for decades.

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