“From what I have read you focus mostly in quality individual stocks that have good dividends. In your opinion, are there any good high yield dividend index ETFs? I don't have a lot of time to watch the markets and individual stocks so I am basically a long term investor with little time to manage. I do reinvest dividends and continually add and increase my investments.
Also, I am
about 7 years from retirement. In post retirement, would you recommend
continuing to invest in high yield dividend stocks and living on the dividend?
Should this be individual stocks or Index ETFs? I appreciate
your opinion.”
Yes I am focused on high-quality dividend
growth stocks. So I have no knowledge about good ETFs to recommend. I'm not
really sure if it makes sense to buy an ETF. Sure if you have only a few thousand
dollars but only with $10k it makes sense to buy single stocks and hold them to
receive the dividend. In a recent article about “How
to invest 15,000 and get diversified”, I’ve described how to proceed. ETFs
have their eligibility. They have pros and cons. A nice site about dividend
investments with related ETF articles and income focus is Seeking Alpha.
If
you are 7 years away from your retirement, I wouldn’t recommend you to buy or
hold high-yield stocks. It’s very dangerous and my experience is that most of
the high-yield stocks are no high-quality stocks. Here I answered a question about "Why High-Yield stocks produce losses".
So, if you buy them and they go down, you have a problem because the business model is often not qualified enough to recover and the dividends will be reduced.
So, if you buy them and they go down, you have a problem because the business model is often not qualified enough to recover and the dividends will be reduced.
It’s
too easy to write about your risk exposure without having information about
your wealth situation. If you don’t need the money for your living standard and
you like to speculate because it’s fun for you and you enjoy it, then it makes
sense to look for riskier stocks. But I wouldn’t do this because investing
should bring profits and make you happy in your retirement age.
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Tom