Hartford Insurance Group ($HIG) podcast mentions
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Ironically enough, this is where the outperformance that I just cited comes from. So S&P Global, I was looking at this study the other day. They show that the Dow Jones U.S. Dividend 100 Index, they did back-tested data starting in 1998, has returned roughly to around the time recording this video, around 1,750% cumulative return, while the S&P 500 is 940%. Now, the obvious pushback to that is that was right before the dot-com bubble. That's absolutely true, right? One, that doesn't eliminate the fact that real people were retiring into the dot-com bubble and ran out of money when utilizing a withdrawal rate. But number two, it points out where does that outperformance over full market cycles actually come from? And what the Hartford Fund study shows us, it's a great study, but it shows us that dividend growth stocks achieve most of their outperformance during bear markets. So stocks that don't pay dividends, what this study showed, do typically outperform dividend growth stocks in raging bull markets, which there's no doubt we've been in really over the last 4 years since 2022.
Eli Brice · BiggerPockets Money · Dividend Investing vs Index Funds: Which Is Better for Financial Independence? · 2026-09-22It depends. Over full market cycles, like we said, you know, dividend growth has historically outperformed over about a 50-year time period. It's what the Hartford Fund study has showed us. The caveat to that is that outperformance, like I said, has come during bear markets. So if we're just in the golden age of AI and we remain in literally the best investing period of all time over the next 20 years, the index is going to do better there, right? But if we do get an '09 pullback, if we get a dot-com bubble pullback, if we get an '87 pullback, dividend growth investing is going to become the most popular investing style of all time. Yeah, no, I, I think in a bull market environment, you know, dividend growth will probably see slight underperformance in a lot of cases.
Eli Brice · BiggerPockets Money · Dividend Investing vs Index Funds: Which Is Better for Financial Independence? · 2026-09-22