A Near-Perfect Buy-And-Hold Dividend Growth Portfolio For Retirement

2026-02-04 10:22:07 ET

Most investors think that they need to choose between dividend growth investing, where the focus is on generating an ever-increasing stream of passive income from dividend stocks, or growth investing, primarily through AI-related stocks like Palantir ( PLTR ) and leading mega-cap hyperscalers like Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Meta ( META ). While the dividend approach may be less exciting, the advantage is the ability to tune out market noise and focus on a more consistent and steadily growing dividend stream that ultimately can reduce sequence of returns risk in retirement. Meanwhile, the focus on growth stocks, at least in recent decades, has delivered superior total returns, albeit with some volatility and without the calming presence and sequence of returns risk-mitigating flow of dividends....

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