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management Profile| Send Message| (9,280)    The one question I
am most often asked about retirement portfolios is if the money
will last a lifetime. As you probably already know, the Team
Alpha Retirement Portfolio attempts to create an income stream
for those of us who are retired (or close), as well as a
dividend yield that can be re-invested to grow the entire
portfolio value exponentially.  As of the most recent portfolio
update, the value of the portfolio has increased by greater than
35% in the last 15 months, and has a current dividend yield on
cost of 4.72%.   While nothing is ever guaranteed, I believe
that between an average rate of growth in both capital
appreciation and dividend payouts, investing in a strategy, and
a model similar to that of Team Alpha, could continue to produce
a regular income stream to help those of us who are either
retired now, or just about ready to, achi