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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend investing for retirement -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: upanddown who wrote (15082)	4/1/2013 3:41:29 PM
From: E_K_S	1 Recommendation Respond to of 34328

OT - Upanddown - You are right. It just goes to show that it takes a lot of savings to build enough capital to spin off that amount of income. I think sometimes these numbers get so large that we lose perspective of what we have. It's quite an accomplishment for many on this thread who have saved enough (both in their taxable and retirement accounts) to plan their retirement w/ "livable" income streams generated from their dividend investments. It's takes a lot of capital to spin off that amount of income. It's a bit more difficult when you do this in a taxable account but it's all achievable when you start young enough, are healthy and have a good job. You must also save and not spend more than you take in (ie limit your debt). I just wish I could obtain such surety when I buy a company's dividend stream. More often than not, these dividends do not increase as much as you expect. That's why those steady dividend CAGR yield payers are so nice but also hard to find. On the other hand when the government provides an entitlement, that's a pretty nice guaranteed payment which in many cases last decades. EKS