Man Can't Live on Dividends Alone for Income Investing

One Seeking Alpha contributor I read is David Van Knapp who writes about dividend investing in the context of drawing income for retirement. David had a post yesterday that among other things asked for input about how RIAs approach dividends thinking that they are often ignored by advisors. I don't think that is true but either way below is the conversation David and I had in the comments of his post: Me: I don't think RIAs ignore dividends in the manner you frame. In building a diversified portfolio there are likely to be quite a few companies with solid track records of dividend growth along with companies that pay no dividends.For what it's worth, I target a yield for the overall portfolio, 3% is... Read more