01-11-2016, 11:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-11-2016, 11:25 PM by Russellhantz.)
Hi I was just going to start a different thread asking about this. Could you guys walk me through the optimism?
I'm a new dividend investor and have invested around 50,000 so far. I've done my best to educate myself and I started reading the 'intelligent investor' for the second time and the point about even the most educated investors still struggle to beat the market gave me pause. It has made me question my choice of being a dividend investor.
Over the past year i've seen a -6.7% drop in the basis of my portfolio but this is offset by 3.3% from the dividends. My alternative was basically the couch potato portfolio which has seen a +6.46% increase. My increase in Yield vs Yield on Cost was about 9%
I'm actually not concerned with the losses but am concerned with me not using my money better. I'm just wondering, from your experiences, were you happy with the choice of going towards dividend investing. How did you persevere during the early years when it was slow? And are the later years worth the slow beginning years?
Talk me off the cliff here guys.
I'm a new dividend investor and have invested around 50,000 so far. I've done my best to educate myself and I started reading the 'intelligent investor' for the second time and the point about even the most educated investors still struggle to beat the market gave me pause. It has made me question my choice of being a dividend investor.
Over the past year i've seen a -6.7% drop in the basis of my portfolio but this is offset by 3.3% from the dividends. My alternative was basically the couch potato portfolio which has seen a +6.46% increase. My increase in Yield vs Yield on Cost was about 9%
I'm actually not concerned with the losses but am concerned with me not using my money better. I'm just wondering, from your experiences, were you happy with the choice of going towards dividend investing. How did you persevere during the early years when it was slow? And are the later years worth the slow beginning years?
Talk me off the cliff here guys.