My goal is to design and manage a diversified portfolio that provides a growing, relatively safe dividend stream to supplement retirement income.
You can follow the development of my retirement income portfolio by reading the Q3 Portfolio Review and two subsequent articles that highlighted some Q4 portfolio changes: This Is A Great Time To Build A Dividend Portfolio and Portfolio Review: Changes On The Leader Board.
At the end of Q3, there were 49 individual equities, one short of the maximum of 50 that I projected earlier in 2018. Several things happened in 2018