For your weekend pleasure, here is one jazzy graphic that demonstrates that dividend stocks are a pretty good place to keep your money these days.  It can be readily observed that in tumultuous times they handily outperform the index.  In less than tumultuous times, they are either even with or a little ahead of the index.  They do seem to be one place where one can have peace of mind.  For your consideration.  

U.S. Dividend Stock Performance, June 2015-2016

June 25, 2016 7:00am by Barry Ritholtz

Source: BlackRock