How are you really going to fund your day-to-day expenses in retirement? A recent Wall Street Journal report pointed out something that has been on my mind lately, as my parents prepare to retire. They're in pretty good shape, financially speaking, and one key source of their income will be the pension that my dad is set to receive from a former employer.
That can be a challenge. But investing in dividend stocks -- before and during retirement -- and letting the dividends contribute to your income once you're retired can be a great way to meet that challenge. The best dividend stocks -- those of steady, blue-chip companies with long histories of increasing dividends -- have advantages for folks near or in retirement that few investments can match. Those advantages start with the dividends themselves, of course, which can be reinvested for extra growth until you need to start taking them as added income.
Source: Motley Fool
Related Articles:
- 3 High-Yield Telecom Dividend Stocks
- 8 Dividend Stocks With The Right Stuff
- International Diversification Begins At Home
- Dividend Payout vs. Free Cash Flow Payout
- High-Yield Dividend Stocks: A Safer Approach
Dividends Can Secure Your Future
Posted by D4L | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 | ArticleLinks | 0 comments »________________________________________________________________
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
~
Popular Posts Last 30 Days
-
As a relatively new blogger, the one thing that has stood out in my mind is the number of Canadian bloggers in the areas that I am most inte...
-
GameStop (NYSE:GME) lost about 40% of its market value over the past three years, as rising digital downloads and declining mall traffic thr...
-
In a capitalistic society, opportunities to generate (mostly) passive income are all around us. Dividend growth investing is one of the most...
-
These elite income producers have rallied this year. Their brilliance at producing passive income seems to have caught the market's eye ...
-
Investors buy dividend stocks for a few reasons. For one, they provide income via dividends that act as a bonus on top of capital appreciati...
-
Buying dividend stocks can be tricky. Oftentimes, stocks that pay exorbitantly high dividends have underlying financial problems, and their ...
-
If you are looking for reliable dividends, these three Dividend Kings should be right up your alley. Dividends are paid at the discretion of...
-
While optimism in the broader market remains robust – particularly for hyped-up sectors like technology – investors may still want to consid...
-
A strong dividend investing strategy may be to focus on high-quality names that score well on several dividend-related metrics. In other wor...
-
When many investors think about tech stocks, they often think first about high-growth names that come with outsized risk -- not mature, divi...
0 comments
Post a Comment
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.