From my early to mid working years (1980's thru 2000's), I was told and sold on the idea from 'financial advisors' that mutual funds were the way to go for retirement. The 2000's came and any gains I had, were gone. I kept a few of the funds, eventually selling some. I was never interested in dividend-paying companies, their stock price never seemed to move, they were too slow for me and I was too cool. So I started trading individual tech stocks, then solar stocks, then ....and piling up more losses in those volatile years. In 2011, I guess you could say I had an 'epiphany'. My interest peaked as I began reading article after article on dividend growth stock investing, leading me to doing research and formulating a ...More plan. This made a lot of sense to me, clear thinking. I have set out on building a dividend growth portfolio of individual stocks for future retirement income and growth, with a few funds and ETF's mixed in. I wish to thank the many great Seeking Alpha authors and contributors for their inspiration and ideas.
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