On today’s episode I’m interviewing Nicholas Ward, a young investor who writes dividend growth-focused investment analysis on Seeking Alpha and the Income Minded Millenial channel on themaven.net. Nicholas manages a portfolio of high-quality stocks that includes both “classic” dividend growth stocks as well as a handful of more speculative growth securities.

In this episode, we discuss Nick’s investment philosophy, where he’s seeing opportunity in the market, and how individual investors can position themselves to achieve above-average total returns. We also hear what Nick's portfolio would look like if he had to sell all of his stocks and change his strategy to a hyper-concentrated approach of holding exactly 5 securities.