At any given time, you can find at least a handful of dividend-paying stocks that offer ultra-high yields. Unfortunately, the stock market rarely allows dividend yields to rise so high unless there are reasons to expect trouble ahead for the underlying businesses.

Since 1928, the S&P 500 index has delivered a total return that works out to 9.7% annually, on average. Thousands of hedge fund managers try to beat this figure, but relatively few do so consistently enough to grow their personal wealth beyond $1 billion.

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