While emerging market stocks have been hammered over the past year due to falling energy and material prices, many investors believe time could be ripe for cherry picking quality stocks outside materials, energy and banking stocks. That puts the focus on emerging market dividend growers with an established history of growing payouts. ProShares, the exchange-traded funds provider known for its …
New ETFs On The Block: Reality Shares DIVCON Leaders Dividend ETF (LEAD)
Amid stock market turbulence and forecasts for a global slowdown, dividend ETFs look attractive to certain investors, particularly to those who are looking to park their money in relatively stable instruments. Besides the general attraction for quality dividend payers, investors also welcome the regular current income and some protection to capital gains offered by dividend stocks. While 2015 witnessed solid …
New ETFs On The Block: Guggenheim Dow Jones Industrial Average Dividend ETF (DJD)
Amid heightened market volatility and slumping Treasury yields, many investors have started to believe lower rates will linger for a bit longer, meaning dividend plays could make hay for an extended period while the Fed falters. Such a scenario may look ideal for a strategically timed new smart-beta product from Guggenheim Investments. The newly launched Guggenheim Dow Jones Industrial …
New ETFs On The Block: SPDR S&P 500 High Dividend ETF (BITE)
Domestic consumption and US consumer spending is likely to remain the dominant investment theme for 2016 as employee wages start to pick up and the wider economic recovery gains traction. Moreover, cheap fuel and improving consumer confidence would likely lead to greater levels of disposable incomes, making the consumer discretionary sector a compelling proposition to stay invested in. The restaurant …
New ETFs On The Block: SPDR S&P 500 High Dividend ETF (SPYD)
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), a unit of State Street and the asset manager behind the iconic SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), recently launched an equity fund dedicated to tracking the performance of the biggest dividend paying stocks listed in the US. The newly minted SPDR S&P 500 High Dividend ETF (SPYD) targets the top dividend payers in the S&P …
New ETFs On The Block: ProShares MSCI Europe Dividend Growers ETF (EUDV)
ProShares, the largest US provider of alternative exchange traded funds, recently launched a so called smart-beta fund that targets European companies with a proven track record of growing dividends. While the global economic turmoil, including China’s slowdown, has hit European companies hard, when it comes to paying dividends they don’t disappoint investors – as of August 31, 2015, the dividend …