With the growing economic uncertainty due to the financial instability in Europe, the growing political instability in the Middle East, the swift decline of leading economic indicators, and the out-of-control sovereign debt crisis, is enough to motivate me to get even more defensive with my long-term investment portfolio. Keep in mind no matter how bad things got people will always need things like pharmaceuticals, consumer staples, and utilities, which hold up well in a recession. Therefore I plan to add a no load mutual fund to my Roth IRA, that has a low expense ratio, provides a decent dividend paying yields, with lower volatility then a high-flying tech fund, and has at least 3 years of bullish astrological indicators to its First Trade horoscope. The winner and my final pick: Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund -VDIGX: May 15th 1992, 9:30 am EDT, New York, NY
