https://seekingalpha.com/article/4412804-investing-for-financial-independence-dividend-growth
Summary
- There are two primary styles of investing that attract Millennials to the stock market.
- One of these investing styles is FIRE, an acronym that stands for "Financial Independence, Retire Early."
- I present the case to my fellow Millennials that dividend growth investing is the best way to invest for FIRE.
Attention, Fellow Millennials!
There are two primary investing styles that attract my fellow Millennials into the stock market: (1) narrative-based momentum investing, and (2) the FIRE movement.
Narrative-based investing is partially what has driven the surging stock prices of popular, cutting-edge tech names like Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), Amazon (AMZN), Google/Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR), Snapchat (SNAP), Bitcoin, and ARK Innovation (ARKK). It's the narrative that fuels these soaring stocks.
Millennials like to invest in the brands they know and admire. It just seems to make sense that if you use the products all the time, then the stock must be a good investment. And what kind of product doesn't Apple make nowadays? Apple iPhone. Apple Watch. Apple Pencil. Apple TV. Apple Refrigerator. (Okay, that last one doesn't exist, but the fact that you just Google searched it should tell you something.)
The motivation behind narrative-based investing is twofold: first, to own a piece of cool companies/brands; and two, to get rich relatively quick. Because for as long as many Millennials have paid attention to the stock market, these tech names have only seemed to go up. Hashtag FOMO.
