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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (20852)	10/7/2014 7:39:03 PM
From: Steve Felix	Respond to of 34328

I consider the less UBTI the better. Nothing guaranteed, but companies do show some history you can check in that regard. "more to retirement than watching the ticker" - fits me perfectly at the moment. I have my daughter and grandson all to myself and making the most of it. Probably 20 minutes of internet time in two days. As for more stocks, that is just my personal preference, and no doubt I look at making someone else's money safer than my own. When my youngest started her IRA she gave me $3,000. I bought her three stocks and didn't feel "safe" at all. I feel safer now that she has 60k and 21 positions. The least amount I have ever been handed to invest was $46k. It went into 15 positions. Was to be set, reinvest everything, and forget, but the guy decided to add $2500 which all went into KMI, a new position. If 13 is right for you, it's right for you. I'd feel I had to watch closer with 13 positions instead of 30. I'll bet there are many on this board that don't want to spend a lot of time on the market, but feel they can easily follow 40 stocks. Much depends on the stocks you are choosing, if it is about income, or about trading / capital gains.