source: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/01/can-you-live-on-dividends-from-the-stock-market/
A reader asks:
I was thinking of retiring with 100% invested in stocks (like an S&P500 index fund) with plans to live entirely on dividend income plus Social Security. The stock portfolio would fluctuate wildly but how much would the dividend amount fluctuate? Does this sound like a reasonable strategy?
The current dividend yield for the S&P 500 is a paltry 1.5%.
That’s low relative to history.
Since 1950, t...