Dividend Growth Bi-Weekly Chat 09/28/2026

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I believe that the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF is an excellent core position for such a portfolio, since it particularly focuses on the sustainability of the companies’ dividends, which allows investors not only to benefit from dividend income but also from dividend growth and capital appreciation.

Today, I’m doing things a tiny bit differently, as I’m going to focus on retirement portfolios. I have spent years reading countless articles on what people would buy or recommend to others for retirement. Most of these ideas revolve around income, which is obvious, as passive income becomes more important the moment we don’t go to our jobs anymore.

High-yield investing comes with risks, which can be mitigated but not completely avoided. Personally, I apply a ~2% haircut on all my high-yielding investments when calibrating the expected long-term income streams.

I am a big believer in diversification, and I diversify my portfolio as well. Moreover, I am a value- and fundamentals-focused investor, which means that I look closely at the companies I invest in to make sure they’re undervalued and have at least a certain threshold of quality in terms of balance sheets, management, and business durability.

Brookfield is a textbook “wide moat”: a business model with more than a century of operating experience, global relationships, access to enormous pools of capital, thousands of investments and operating professionals, financing relationships, asset-level intelligence, and the ability to deploy billions of dollars across multiple asset classes and geographies.

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