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Let me Google that for you... To take the biggest example, CBA is down from a peak of $97 to $80 over the last three months... so just shy of 20%.

Given recent capital raisings it looks like these dividends are not sustainable. The payout ratios have been too high as investors have been chasing yield. Hence the expectation that these dividends will drop. Nevertheless, there are likely to be worse investments out there!

I haven't considered VHY in any detail (too narrowly focussed for me) but you are doing something wrong. Remember that dividends are paid quarterly and the share price has moved with its index.

???? The price per unit and dividends roughly match the relevant index, minus the (relatively small) management fee. Are you referring to VTI? I don't go there personally because I can't work out a long term way to manage the currency risk. The dividends on VAS are significantly higher...

It wasn't always that way. Nothing to stop ALDI doing the same here. Well underway already in some areas... As for selling Masters - at what price can you sell such a beast?

More to the point, it's not in the spirit of this forum. This place is at its best when people post real numbers when their investments have both done well - and poorly. So we can all learn from the psychological challenges involved and we can help each other. If we just throw rocks at people...

No - because things generally go in cycles. While some become super cycles, most out performance of a company / sector / strategy is generally followed by under performance purely for the fact that there is less upside left. Of course there are notable exceptions to this rule but the...