Dividend-Paying Stocks And TIPS As Ways To Boost Nest Egg

These are two of the four ways mentioned in this WSJ article in which investors can boost their nest eggs. The author does admit that there are risks in dividend-paying stocks:

In 2008, an investment of $10,000 in S&P's "Dividend Aristocrats" -- companies in the S&P 500 that have raised their dividends every year for at least 25 years in a row -- would have generated a respectable payout of almost $400. But the value of the stocks would have fallen to about $7,800.