A Tale of $1,000 and Dividends

One might argue that dividends are the financial world’s version of a comforting blanket-warm, predictable, and utterly unreliable in a crisis. SCHD, with its portfolio of “dividend aristocrats,” promises stability, but stability is the kind of thing that makes the universe yawn. After all, if the market were a person, it would be the one who says, “Sure, let’s all jump off a cliff, but first, let’s buy some bonds.”







