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Retirement planning can feel overwhelming, but small adjustments like delaying retirement or focusing on high-income investments can make a big difference. In this article, I share three strategies th...

Dividend stocks make great long-term investments. For example, an investor who bought $100 worth of average dividend stocks in 1973 would have seen that investment grow to over $8,700 as of the end of...

I discuss my use of the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF™ for planning early retirement, weighing the merits of total returns versus dividend yields. Historical data shows dividend stocks like those in...

Low-volatility, dividend growth stocks offer long-term outperformance and a favorable risk profile, despite lower yields during bull markets. Dividend growth portfolios can significantly increase yiel...

This week's anticipated dividend increases feature six companies, averaging a 4.4% rise, with a median increase of 3.4%. My strategy involves investing in companies with consistent dividend growth and...

The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF offers automatic diversification, income, and growth with a 3.5% dividend yield and low 0.06% expense ratio. SCHD's diversified portfolio of 103 holdings includes t...

Even though the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF offers investors an attractive blend of dividend income and dividend growth, a reduced level of diversification can be noted. Today's article aims to re...

Passive income-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be a cheap and simple way to give yourself a nice dividend raise of sorts.

Retiring with dividends is best done with a diversified portfolio of blue-chip dividend growth stocks to ensure stable and growing passive income. I discuss a simple method for building such a portfol...

The Schwab US Dividend Equity (SCHD) ETF has done well in the past decade as it became one of the biggest dividend and sleep-well-at-night (SWAN) funds. It has soared by over 400% since its inception ...

The S&P 500 is overvalued and concentrated. SCHD offers a favorable alternative with a 3.55% dividend yield, focusing on value stocks and dividend growers, which are better suited for the current high...

There is an often overlooked difference between income investing and dividend growth investing. The two are not the same. Timely charts showing that inflation is even more subdued than the official CP...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are great options for those seeking to generate passive income. Many of these funds hold a portfolio of income-generating investments.

I strongly advise against investing in the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF due to its consistent underperformance compared to broader market indices. Despite its focus on high dividend-yielding, finan...

The higher-for-longer rate scenario has pressured the valuation of dividend stocks due to their bond-proxy flavor. However, the pressure is not felt evenly between SCHD and VYM. SCHD's yield spread ov...

Many income-production asset classes provide subpar offerings. It is either high yield or high growth and rarely something in the middle. I share why infrastructure could be a solution to fill this ga...

The BDC sector had a lackluster H2 of 2024 after being on a strong run from 2022 to mid 2024. However, recently there has been some great news for BDCs to start 2025. We share our approach to BDCs rig...

This week's anticipated dividend increases feature three companies with an average increase of 8.9% and a median increase of 8.7%. My strategy focuses on buying, holding, and adding companies that con...

SCHD faces tax inefficiencies due to double taxation on dividends, reducing overall returns compared to tax-deferred capital gains strategies. SCHD is structurally underweight in AI, missing out on si...

Dividend investing has a lot going for it. However, most dividend ETFs and dividend portfolios are missing an important component. This article offers some high-yielding solutions to fill that void.