Chapter 9 of 11

Your path to financial freedom

The goal many dividend investors aim for: income that quietly covers the bills.

Financial freedom, dividend style, is the point where your dividend income covers your living costs — so working becomes optional. Contributions plus reinvested, growing dividends compound toward that date, often over many years. Quantic's Path to Freedom projects when you might get there and shows what moves the date.

Dividend income rising to cross your expenses line.

Key terms

Dividend snowball: Reinvesting dividends so they buy shares that pay their own dividends. Each round of income is slightly larger than the last without you adding anything, which is why a dividend portfolio grows slowly for years and then quickly — the same reason a snowball rolling downhill picks up more snow the bigger it gets.
Path to freedom: Quantic's projection of when your dividend income could cover your living costs — your dividend-FIRE date.
Total return: Everything a holding earns you — dividends received plus the change in share price — not just the income.

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