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The Dividend Portfolio That Funds Your Early Retirement
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a less-talked-about early retirement strategy: building a dividend-focused portfolio that generates enough passive income to cover living expenses without selling shares. They use a detailed hypothetical example: a 40-year-old couple with a $1.2 million portfolio targeting a 3.5% dividend yield — $42,000 per year — supplemented by a part-time consulting gig. Lucas explains why dividend stocks can reduce sequence-of-returns risk compared to total-return withdrawal strategies, and Luna pushes back on the tax inefficiency and concentration risk. They break…
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