Yes indeed, hire a professional than having partners.

My strategy is investing in long term, I am a retired person in a 26 year old's body. It may sound boring, but these kinds of stocks tend to outperform the broader market regardless of the interest-rate environment.

You may be tempted to look for a smaller company providing a much higher dividend yield, but you need to remember there is a risk/reward trade-off with dividends. The higher the dividend, the greater the risk. Not only do you risk losing capital if the stock price plunges during a correction, but if the company doesn’t have a lot of money, the company could cut its dividend yield, which could also kill the share price.

Some of these dividend stocks in which I have invested are:
Altria Group
HCP, Inc,
JNJ
Source: Best Dividend Stocks for 2017

When a company is providing great dividends and also has future potential, you’d expect it to be expensive. But that’s not the case for GM stock. Trading at $34.69 on Wednesday, General Motors stock has a price-to-earnings multiple of less than four times.

If the company keeps growing its business and increasing shareholder returns, investors might be able to reward it with higher valuations. If they are willing to pay, say, $8.00 for one dollar of GM’s earnings—not a high multiple by any means—GM stock could see triple-digit upside.

Most common question people have is how to invest in dividend stocks, that’s where investing in high-quality stocks that provide dividends come in. There are two ways you can make money on a stock: capital appreciation and dividend yield. Capital appreciation is the increase in the share price and the dividend yield is what the company elects to pay out annually. For example, if a company’s share price increased five percent in 2015 and paid an annual dividend of five percent, the annualized return would be 10%. Adding high-quality dividend stocks to your retirement portfolio is the best way to ensure consistent growth.

If you don’t want to expose your investments to relatively less-known companies with risky business models, one potential way out is to buy solid dividend-paying stocks with staggered quarterly payout schedules. For example, you can build your dividend-paying portfolio by picking stocks with monthly dividend stocks.

This is what i have read around, can anyone suggest me how to begin trading in stocks?