Reality Radio for a really great future.

We're talking real money.

We hear from a lot of people, a lot.

And you hear it, even if you don't listen to this show.

If you watch financial television or read the financial press a lot of a lot of proponents out

there of a dividend investing strategy that is where you buy only stocks that pay dividends or

higher dividends and you you ignore all the ones that don't pay dividends,

and you create an income stream from that.

Now, on the face of it, it makes perfect sense.

Oh, okay, it's just like getting income from my bonds.

I'm just going to collect the dividends from the stock,

no matter what they do, and I'm going to come out all right.

Well, you might,

you might not. It's one of those kind of, it depends on what the future looks like.

But as a strategy, does it make sense based on evidence, based on academic research?

We have turned to a lot of people to answer this question.

And Tom, what's the answer? The answer really is no. The answer is no twice. Number one, in terms of a

strategy to sort of chase down the higher dividend paying stocks and think you're going to make more

than the market

does not that and we'll talk about the papers to support that and then the second part of this

this is what came up in a recent question is you know why not just have a portfolio of these

harvest this as my income in retirement. And again, the numbers don't pan out.

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