Highest-yielding dividend stocks for 2015

In 2014, some stock pickers on the TSX didn’t do as well as they expected, reports Canadian Business.

In fact, many investors who focused on Canadian, blue-chip companies that had the highest dividend yields at the beginning of the year saw their returns drop by the end of 2014.

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But, one of the main reasons their approach failed was many of these companies were in the energy sector, says Canadian Business. So investment prospects may be better this year, “depend[ing] on your position on energy prices, and whether you think they have bottomed out.”

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