Christine Benz: Hi, I’m Christine Benz for Morningstar. I’ve noticed that many investors do a good job of selecting investments, but they struggle putting the pieces together into a portfolio that ...

Dominion cut the dividend, so it was sold from our holdings. I screened the Dividend Champions list to find a model portfolio to replace our D holdings. There are no MLPs or REITs in the portfolio.

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