| A place to share info and have discussion, mostly on dividend stocks, but including ETFs, CEFs, mutual funds, and other income producing investments. The overall goal being to build a growing income stream, portfolio growth being secondary. With an abundance of very intelligent and experienced posters, and no real functioning retirement board on SI, imho a good place for any retirement questions or concerns. 
 My personal favorite book to give any young person. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
 amazon.com
 
 Two thread favorite reads:
 
 The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth by Lowell Miller
 amazon.com
 
 2006 Edition available as a free PDF online. Introduction and first 46 pages required reading imho.
 mhinvest.com
 
 The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today's Investor by Josh Peters
 amazon.com
 
 Descriptions of Achievers, Aristocrats, and Champions:
 
 Message 26976538
 
 Printable list here:
 
 dripinvesting.org
 
 Here's a handy website (courtesy of another board). The home page gives dividends, total return, dividend growth rate for various time periods and the like for any stock going back as far as 1970.
 
 There's also a drop down menu ( top right ) where you can pull up inflation rate, S&P earnings and the like since 1960.
 
 longrundata.com
 
 This site will give you a the 3 and 5 year dividend growth.
 
 dividendinvestor.com
 
 Another helpful site: theconservativeincomeinvestor.com
 
 A few more some could find handy:
 
 Stock screener: finviz.com
 All things closed end funds: cefconnect.com
 Dividend news: seekingalpha.com
 Preferred stocks and baby bonds: dividendyieldhunter.com
 
 I am going to track my IRA here and update it monthly. Anyone who would like to do the same, I will link to the header. Real world always being better than hypothetical.
 
 Current portfolio: Message 30607835
 
 You can start at the beginning and follow over time by reading replies:
 
 Message 26288005
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