I stop working in about three years and would like income arriving smoothly rather than in four lumps. The obvious approach is buying quarterly payers across the three different cycles so something lands every month,…
Bought 200 shares two days before the ex dividend date and held through the record date, and the dividend never landed. Support told me to check the record date, which I did, and I still do not follow. I am clearly…
I am 34, everything tax sheltered is already full, and the rest goes into one broad market index fund in a plain taxable account. I am tempted to move maybe 30 percent into individual dividend payers, honestly for…
Regulated utility. Payout ratio against earnings is 62 percent, which looks comfortable. But operating cash flow minus capex is negative most years and the dividend is being paid alongside new debt issuance and share…
I am 47, spend around 30k a year after tax, and have roughly 420k invested with about 60 percent of it sheltered. The appeal of a dividend only approach is never having to sell anything, especially in a bad year. I am…
About 400 a month going in, twelve holdings, commission free platform with fractional shares, taxable account. I could turn on automatic reinvestment per holding, or let dividends sit as cash and deploy everything…
Holding an infrastructure fund. This quarter's distribution is labelled return of capital and my average cost per share fell by about the same amount. Nothing else changed. I thought return of capital meant the fund was…
First dividend I have ever been due. The record date was last week, the company announcement lists a payment date about three weeks out, and my account shows nothing at all, not even a pending line. Is the payment date…