How you could quadruple your dividend income

Reinvesting your dividends is vital to growing your investment. And once you discover which shares you should buy, you could give your dividend income a massive boost. Brian Durrant explains.

For nearly three years now, the FTSE has been performing the same unsettled dance. One month it rises after a fresh pump of credit from central banks. The next it collapses after another scare about the health of the economy. History suggests that stock markets can behave like this for a quite a while after a big financial crash the burden of debt makes it hard for the economy to gather momentum. So we need to find a way to deal with this erratic behaviour.

The first thing to do is to switch off. We don't need to concern ourselves with short-term movements in the market if you've bought the right assets to protect your money. I'm talking about gold. That's your best protection against the financial instability ahead.

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Brian has contributed to MoneyWeek with his expertise in investment strategy, for example how to quadruple your dividend income and how to navigate through the stock market in the 2008 financial crisis. He’s also touched on personal finance such as the housing market and the UK economy.