The 7 Best Dividend ETFs for Beginners Over 40

So, you're in your 40s and you want to get started with investing. However, you want to reduce your risk and you also want to invest in assets that give you some sort of dividends or income on a monthly or quarterly basis. But, of course, you're a beginner and you don't know where to begin. So, in this video,

I'm going to answer just that. I'm going to talk about three things. First, I'm going to go over my five ETF picking criteria that I use for myself, how I pick my dividend paying ETFs, how my community members also do it. Two, I'm going to go over seven ETF examples for you to pick and choose. Again, none of

this is financial advice. You want to choose whatever you're most comfortable with, adding to your own portfolio. And number three, most importantly, I'm going to go over the risk and rewards. Okay? So this way you understand what it is that you're actually investing in, what you're getting yourself into. So if you haven't done so already, I highly

encourage you to download the $1 million road map down below. It's going to include all of my study guides, including the one that you see right here. So let's talk about the five ETF picking criteria that I use for myself. Remember, this is just a guideline, not hard set rules. But if you were to

follow these, I can almost kind of promise you that you're going to do well in your portfolio as long as you follow somewhat of these guidelines here. So, the very first thing is we're going to look at this third column. I already made videos on how to pick stable backbone ETFs and tech growth ETFs. If

you haven't checked those out, you can check those out, too. But we're going to focus our attention on this third column, the dividend income ETF picking guideline. So first and foremost, we want to make sure that the 1-year, 5year, and 10-year trend is going upward, right? We want to make sure that whenever we look at the charts, we are