Ron's portfolio in retirement

[fenders53]

(07-04-2022, 07:04 AM)cemanuel Wrote:

(07-02-2022, 05:48 PM)fenders53 Wrote: It's certainly a good year to be dividend Investors.

Absolutely. Over on SA there was a thread recently where many people posted about their slowed dividend growth in 2020. Interestingly, for me, it was last year where my cuts/freezes were felt with only about a 7% increase. This year I will surpass my total dividends received in 2021 some time in August. Part of this is having the IRA but not all - without it I'd be pointing to some time in October.

A couple of months ago I heard an investment advisor on Bloomberg (driving so no notes to recall who). She said that 2021 was marked by huge earnings growth that outpaced dividends. She saw 2022 as a year when dividends would start to catch up.

As I have mentioned I am on a Dividend Discord where 90% of the investors have less than two years experience.  The ones that stuck to DGI investing and avoided hype stocks are pretty thrilled by how much they are beating the index by.  I chuckle and keep telling them to enjoy the moment, because beating the SPY by 10%+ over the long-term might just be a little harder than it appears.   I love dividend investing, but there is no strategy that doesn't have years of underperformance, and sometimes several in a row.