2024-04-16 16:36:58 ET
Summary
- Inadequate pension savings and ever-increasing longevity is threatening investors' well-being in retirement.
- Planning for retirement is a life-long process, the earlier you start the better. This allows you to benefit from the full power of compounding.
- Investing as little as $100,000 in your 30s with an aggressive dividend growth strategy has the potential to grow into a significant portfolio by retirement.
- Instead of chasing high-yield stocks, consider aggressive dividend growth with a low yield, but double-digit EPS growth to drive capital appreciation alongside distributions.
- I present a sample dividend growth portfolio with a low 1.5% yield, but double-digit DGR and a potential annual return of 15%.
"Looming retirement crisis."
These are the words of the CEO of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, Inc. ( BLK ). Larry Fink has warned investors of a retirement crisis in the future as pension savings fail to keep up with the ever-increasing longevity, thanks to medical breakthroughs.
While increasing longevity is a good thing for individuals, the world's aging population will present a significant challenge for governments, to maintain social security benefits as we know them today, given more people will be collecting benefits, than contributing. A secure and well-earned retirement is going to be one of the major challenges of the 21st century for many....
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Plan For A Secure Retirement With A $100,000 Aggressive, 15-Stock Dividend Growth Portfolio