Dividend Growth Investor

Top 20 Performing Dividend ETFs

None of these funds is a dividend fund per se. These are fixed income funds, which hold fixed income instruments in their portfolios and thus receive interest income. The funds might call their distributions "dividends", but they are interest income ( and capital gains)

Some Graham and Dodd Type Thoughts on Stocks vs. Bonds

I second chap08 that dividend stocks could provide you with a better inflation adjusted stream of income. While dividends are not guaranteed, a diversified portfolio of dividend growth stocks would soften the blow from any cuts and even increase distributions as a whole.
Over the past 80 years the dividends in the Dow industrials and S&P 500 have risen by an average of about 5%/year. I bet over the next few decades dividends would still adequately compensate investors for inflation. I also like fixed income investments however, in case we have deflation.