A great article by DividendMantra on the pros and cons of holding versus deploying cash. Do you agree with his take?


I'm just another young guy, at 30 years and counting, trying to achieve financial independence at a young age. My main mission with this blog is to chronicle my journey from a negative net worth to retirement in 12 years. As such, this being my real life, it's of the utmost importance to me that I do everything in my power to maximize the possibility of this goal actually being achieved. As many of you already know, my strategy is to invest fresh capital on a monthly basis in attractively priced high quality dividend growth stocks and to keep most of my net worth there, eventually living off the dividend income my portfolio will provide.

One concept that dividend growth investors, including yours truly, often talk about is the ......