Northeast Utilities

  • Dividend Increases Hit the Mark

    By Mark Agnew  |  September 25, 2012

    The shareholder-owned electric utility industry added to its eight-year-long trend of widespread dividend increases in Q2.

  • Generating Strong Returns

    By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  September 25, 2012

    Despite the overall market’s swings from risk-on to risk-off in response to a slow U.S. recovery, Europe’s ongoing crisis and the Fed’s decision to hold rates at extraordinarily low levels, electric utilities have continued to provide solid total returns for growth-and-income investors seeking lower volatility.

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