I couldn’t agree with you more. On personal front, like you, I also follow dividends growth/focused method.

All investment styles exists because they work for somebody. right? And we can debate whether it works for an investor or investment manager. it’s all about the context.

Thanks for stopping by!

Best Wishes,

If your friend can earn 60K a year from a pool of 80K then all the power to him.

Personally I think I would fail at this style, and I also believe he is in the extreme minority to be able to do this with his consistency.

Even WEB himself says he Microsoft, and related stocks because he knows nothing about them.

IMO all investment styles will work provided you have the stomach to stick with what you are doing. Most people are so called value investors until tech stocks shoot to the moon. All of the sudden they are now momentum investors, joining the party too late, always chasing last years trends.

I am still convinced that dividend growth investing is the way to go. Sure it is not infallible , as last years massive dividend cuts have shown, but i believe it to be the closest to the “holy grail” of investing.

Not so much because it is a superior method, but because you can stick to your guns through bad times and not jump ship.

You always focus on the growing income, and not the stock price.

Even though I had 2 dividend cuts last year my income will be higher this year than last year. In fact from a dividend income perspective I have NEVER lost money. I have always made money.

If that’s the best the “worst market since the depression” can do, then bring it on!