Tracking The Best Vanguard ETF For Dividend Growth Investors

Suppose you have a friend who has just inherited some money or has rolled over an IRA or 401k into a Vanguard brokerage account and wants to invest this nest egg using a dividend growth strategy. At the moment of truth, however, he or she gets cold feet about buying individual stocks. Despite the many useful articles found on Seeking Alpha, your friend is worried about individual companies going bankrupt, inadequate portfolio diversification, and failure to earn enough interest to make retirement possible. It all seems too overwhelming. So your friend asks you for advice. Here are some ideas that might help you arrive at an answer. To pursue a dividend growth strategy in this context means looking for ETFs that, have a decent yield, pay dividends that increase every year or at least most years, and increase those dividends at a substantial compound annual growth rate. Because an ETF... Read more