Retiring without worrying about income is the dream. Many of us have ten or so more years to plan out how we want to reach that goal, far too many of us haven't appropriately planned. Thankfully, there are a handful of proven ways to generate a reliably stable income in retirement. One of my favorites is by investing in dividend growth stocks worthy of the phrase “buy and hold forever.” While that might seem something like a dream, if you consider the S&P 500’s performance over the past 50 years, it shows that plenty of companies fit the bill.
Indeed, some of those companies belong to the Dividend Aristocrats list: S&P 500 listed stocks that have increased their dividends for at least the last 25 years. But “increasing dividends” doesn't automatically equate to “buy and hold forever,” so we need to do some digging to see which companies fit the bill.
