In fact, over that period, portfolios invested in the highest-yielding stocks returned three percentage points more a year than the S.&P. 500 index.

It tracks the 100 highest-yielding stocks that have maintained or increased their dividends over the last five years.

It invests in the 50 highest-yielding stocks with 10 consecutive years of annualized dividend increases.

On the first trading day of the year, an investor would choose the 10 highest-yielding stocks among the Dow Jones industrial average, hold them for a year, then sell.

The Dogs of the Dow theory, for example, recommends that investors buy the 10 highest-yielding stocks among the 30 that make up the Dow Jones industrials.

The new fund invests in the 10 highest-yielding stocks in each of the four biggest European markets: Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

One very simple stock market investment strategy is to buy the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the 30-stock Dow Jones industrial average, and then sit back and enjoy the results.

Question: Not long ago you wrote about funds that invest in the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average.

That involves investing in the 10 highest-yielding stocks of the average, which are considered depressed because their prices are low in relation to their dividends.

The "dogs of the Dow" strategy involves investing in the 10 highest-yielding - and therefore cheapest - stocks of the Dow Jones industrial average.