A stock market crash threat is boosting the appeal of high-potential investments that offer a way to capitalize on a chance for share-price appreciation while seeking to limit the fallout from a severe drop.

Investors worried about the threat of a stock market crash still can produce outsized profits if they buy stocks and funds with the greatest likelihood to thrive in the long term regardless of what happens to the overall market. Risk also can be reduced by investing in equities that pay a dividend, which historically outperform non-dividend-paying stocks and funds for the long term.

One of the highest-profile and most respected champions of dividend-paying stocks is Jeremy Siegel, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Siegel’s “Stocks for the Long Run” was named by the Washington Post as one of the 10 best investment books of all time.

Paul Dykewicz interviews Bob Carlson (left), who leads the Retirement Watch service and chairs the Board of Trustees of Virginia’s Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System.

Paul Dykewicz interviews Hilary Kramer, whose new 2-Day Trader service has notched profits in 81 percent of its trades for an average return of 9.65 percent since its launch last July.

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Paul Dykewicz, www.pauldykewicz.com, is an accomplished, award-winning journalist who has written for Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, USA Today, the Journal of Commerce, Seeking Alpha, GuruFocus and other publications and websites. Paul is the editor of StockInvestor.com and DividendInvestor.com, a writer for both websites and a columnist. He further is the editorial director of Eagle Financial Publications in Washington, D.C., where he edits monthly investment newsletters, time-sensitive trading alerts, free e-letters and other investment reports. Paul previously served as business editor of Baltimore’s Daily Record newspaper. Paul also is the author of an inspirational book, “Holy Smokes! Golden Guidance from Notre Dame’s Championship Chaplain,” with a foreword by former national championship-winning football coach Lou Holtz.The book is endorsed by Joe Montana, Joe Theismann, Ara Paseghian, “Rocket” Ismail, Reggie Brooks, Dick Vitale and many others. Follow Paul on Twitter@PaulDykewicz.