Do you want to replace your term deposit with these ASX dividend shares?
I can totally understand why you'd want to do that. If you had $1 million to invest in term deposits you'd probably be getting less than 2% today, which is less than $20,000 per year.
Unless you're happy to lower your lifestyle or eat into the capital, term deposits just aren't going to cut it.
However, if you were originally in term deposits I would guess that relative safety is a preferred element of shares.
No share is impervious from share price falls, but shares will hopefully go up over the long-term too. However, I think that these shares in-particular are options to replace a term deposit on the income side of things:
Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Co. Ltd (ASX: SOL) is an investment conglomerate, it has a grossed-up dividend yield of 4.1% and it has increased its dividend every year since 2000.
APA Group (ASX: APA) is an energy infrastructure business, it has a distribution yield of 4.6% and it has increased its distribution every year for the past 15 years.
WAM Research Limited (ASX: WAX) is a listed investment company (LIC), it has a grossed-up dividend yield of 9.7% and it has increased its dividend each year since the GFC.
Growthpoint Properties Australia Ltd (ASX: GOZ) is a real estate investment trust (REIT), it has a distribution yield of 5.5% and it has increased its distribution each year since it started paying one a decade ago.
Rural Funds Group (ASX: RFF) is another REIT, it has a distribution yield of 5.5% and it has increased its distribution each year since it started paying one in 2014.
All of the above shares have income increases going back to since their inception, or to at least to back the GFC for some of the older ideas. That's a pretty reassuring track record in my book.
Foolish takeaway
Out of the above names, I have put a sizeable part of my portfolio in Soul Patts shares in recent times. It has a great long-term track record of beating the market, with conservative and contrarian focused management – I think it would be a very promising idea to replace your term deposit and improve your income.
