Welcome to my first portfolio update for 2018. My ultimate goal is financial freedom. In the future I hope to own a portfolio of income producing investments that will give me enough income to live off and grow into perpetuity. That's why I'm naturally attracted to dividend growth investing.
My belief is that individual investors can beat the market. I don't believe in diversification (to a degree); I also don't believe you always need to be 100% fully invested.
Schematically I group my stock into my, "dividend growth machine" and "beat the market stocks." My