Dividend Portfolio Update

Welcome back for another dividend portfolio update!

Since our last update we have continued to execute on our plan of making regularly scheduled contributions. The markets continue to hit all time highs so it’s been slim pickings for individual stocks. However, there are some opportunities out there. With the current environment we have mostly stuck to adding shares to our ETF positions in SCHD, JEPI and JEPQ.

We do have a couple of positions that haven’t participated in the run up. Normally this is where we would direct our available funds. However, most of these positions are also the same ones we have identified and put on the chopping block. This is because they no long fit our investment strategy. The fact that they are having bad year is just an annoying inconvenience for the time being.

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July 2022 Financial Update

Don’t call it a comeback…………………

Another month in the books and market conditions improved, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves and start celebrating the return of the bulls. Sure, it was nice to see the markets move up for once. And they moved up in a significant manner as well. However, we are not even close to being out of the woods on inflation and our economy is slowing down.

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