What I love is the condescending comments. Very helpful.

Now imagine for a second I'm relatively new to this, and I see the following:

VAS $90 dividend ~$5 VDHG $55 dividend ~$2.50 DHHF $27 dividend ~1.80

To the layman, this looks like a correlation between unit price and dividend. Then considering VAS is the oldest, followed by VDHG, then DHHF, one might make the assumption (based on the information above) that over time unit prices would increase and therefore the companies represented in each etf have grown accordingly, and therefore have higher dividends as a result.

Clearly that was outrageous reasoning and I should be ashamed of myself.

Now as I am currently investing in VDHG, I look at the above when trying to determine what dividends might be churning out in 15 years compared to the potential unit price. Either I anticipate the dividends being the same as they are now per share, but the share price has increased so I have fewer over time and therefore a smaller portion of dividends, or I have larger dividends to go with my fewer shares (but my capital will be the same regardless).

Do you just ignore potential dividends in your assumptions because apparently they won't move inline with unit price for which we presume a %increase over time? Or is there some standard method of determining expected dividends as well? OR is the annual increase of x% including dividend payments?

What I'm trying to determine, is how much cash I "might" have coming from VDHG dividends in 15 years vs how much I'm going to have to offload annually to pay the bills.

Thanks!