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Unsupportable Fervor Requires An ETF Wish List
Gary Gordon • Wed, May 15 • 8 Comments
Don't Let Performance Anxiety Push You Over The Edge
David Fabian • Wed, May 15 • 1 Comment
3 'Tweaks' That Will Fortify Your ETF Portfolio
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Best And Worst ETFs And Mutual Funds: Large-Cap Value Style
David Trainer • Fri, May 10
Why 'Dr. Doom' Is Buying Stocks (Why I Will Wait On Stock ETFs)
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A Dividend ETF With Quality Screens
Tom Lydon • Mon, Apr 29
Who's Going To Be The Last Bear Standing?
David Fabian • Thu, Apr 25 • 9 Comments
Why Corporate Bond ETFs And Preferred ETFs Are Hitting New 52-Week Highs
Gary Gordon • Wed, Apr 17
My 401(K): What's Next To Buy, And Why
J.D. Welch • Fri, Apr 12 • 13 Comments
Investors Play Defense With Dividend ETFs
Tom Lydon • Thu, Apr 11 • 1 Comment
Massaging Your Dividend Equity Buy List: Part 2
Michael Fabian • Tue, Apr 9 • 6 Comments
5 Dividend Champions Yielding More Than 4%
Kevin Quon • Mon, Apr 8 • 4 Comments
Time For Rotating Positions In Your ETF Portfolio
Gary Gordon • Thu, Apr 4 • 15 Comments
Surveying The Dividend ETF Landscape
Tom Lydon • Wed, Apr 3 • 1 Comment
Massaging Your Dividend Equity Buy List
Michael Fabian • Wed, Mar 27 • 30 Comments
A New High-Dividend, Low-Volatility ETF From Global X
Tom Lydon • Tue, Mar 12 • 1 Comment
Enhance Income With These 3 Low Beta Tobacco Stocks
Nick Chiu • Wed, Feb 27 • 11 Comments
The Monthly Dividend ETF Difference
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ETFs With Best Price Chart Condition: Yield And Low Volatility Prevail
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A Dividend ETF With Quality Screens
Tom Lydon • Mon, Apr 29
Is This Dividend ETF Right For You? Part 2: HDV
Paul Zimbardo • Tue, Aug 28, 2012 • 8 Comments
My 401(k) - Exchanging A Mutual Fund For ETFs, Part 4
J.D. Welch • Thu, Aug 9, 2012 • 21 Comments
Capturing Incremental Income With Dividend ETFs
Jim Pyke • Wed, Jun 6, 2012 • 3 Comments
What Obama's Budget Proposal Means For Dividend Investing
Russ Koesterich • Thu, Mar 8, 2012 • 67 Comments
What HDV's Track Record Tells Us About The ETF Industry
Kevin Feldman • Tue, Feb 14, 2012 • 5 Comments
New iShares High Dividend ETF Offers High Quality Yield
Frank J. Constantino • Sat, Apr 2, 2011 • 25 Comments

Unsupportable Fervor Requires An ETF Wish List
Gary Gordon • Wed, May 15 • 8 Comments
Don't Let Performance Anxiety Push You Over The Edge
David Fabian • Wed, May 15 • 1 Comment
3 'Tweaks' That Will Fortify Your ETF Portfolio
Gary Gordon • Mon, May 13 • 2 Comments
Best And Worst ETFs And Mutual Funds: Large-Cap Value Style
David Trainer • Fri, May 10
Why 'Dr. Doom' Is Buying Stocks (Why I Will Wait On Stock ETFs)
Gary Gordon • Tue, Apr 30 • 15 Comments
Who's Going To Be The Last Bear Standing?
David Fabian • Thu, Apr 25 • 9 Comments
Why Corporate Bond ETFs And Preferred ETFs Are Hitting New 52-Week Highs
Gary Gordon • Wed, Apr 17
My 401(K): What's Next To Buy, And Why
J.D. Welch • Fri, Apr 12 • 13 Comments
Investors Play Defense With Dividend ETFs
Tom Lydon • Thu, Apr 11 • 1 Comment
Massaging Your Dividend Equity Buy List: Part 2
Michael Fabian • Tue, Apr 9 • 6 Comments
5 Dividend Champions Yielding More Than 4%
Kevin Quon • Mon, Apr 8 • 4 Comments
Time For Rotating Positions In Your ETF Portfolio
Gary Gordon • Thu, Apr 4 • 15 Comments
Surveying The Dividend ETF Landscape
Tom Lydon • Wed, Apr 3 • 1 Comment
Massaging Your Dividend Equity Buy List
Michael Fabian • Wed, Mar 27 • 30 Comments
A New High-Dividend, Low-Volatility ETF From Global X
Tom Lydon • Tue, Mar 12 • 1 Comment
Enhance Income With These 3 Low Beta Tobacco Stocks
Nick Chiu • Wed, Feb 27 • 11 Comments
The Monthly Dividend ETF Difference
Benzinga • Tue, Feb 26 • 22 Comments
ETFs With Best Price Chart Condition: Yield And Low Volatility Prevail
Richard Shaw • Mon, Feb 25 • 4 Comments
ETFs Worth Considering... Even After The S&P 500's 7-Week Streak
Gary Gordon • Fri, Feb 15 • 4 Comments
My 401(K): What Next To Buy, And Why - February, 2013
J.D. Welch • Thu, Feb 14 • 16 Comments

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HDV vs. ETF Alternatives

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The iShares High Dividend Equity Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Morningstar Dividend Yield Focus Index.
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In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Dividend ETFs
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Tuesday, May 21, 3:55 PM WisdomTree (WETF) plans a Wednesday launch for its U.S. Dividend Growth Fund (DGRW) - tracking a fundamentally-weighted index of about 300 dividend payers with annual cost of 0.28%. Among the eligibility requirements: Regular dividends for 12 consecutive months and market cap of at least $2B. Individual security weighting is capped at 5%, with sector allocation capped at 20%. Among the large selection of other dividend funds: VIG, PFM, DHS, DTN. More here. Comment! [Financials]
Tuesday, May 21, 5:40 AM Goldman Sachs lifts its forecasts for the S&P 500 (SPY), as David Kostin and company now say they expect the index to gain 5% by year-end to 1,750, 9% to 1,900 in 2014, and 10% to 2,100 in 2015. The rationale: expectations of above-trend real GDP growth beginning next year (Mr. Evans' "escape velocity" ?) coupled with P/E multiple expansion to 16x. Furthermore, dividends should rise ~30% over the next two years, bolstering the firm's claim that dividend-paying equities (DVY) are one of the only places U.S. investors can look to for income-generation. Some of GS's dividend picks, as listed on MarketWatch: Mattel (MAT), Ford (F), Philip Morris (PM), Walgreen (WAG), Chevron (CVX), U.S. Bancorp (USB), GE, Western Union (WU), Dow Chemical (DOW), and AT&T (T). 11 Comments
Tuesday, May 14, 12:54 PM The Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD) launches - an actively managed fund led by The Ivy Portfolio author Mebane Faber. Income's nice, but don't focus too much on dividends, says Faber, who also adds in share buybacks and debt repayment to create "shareholder yield." Competing dividend ETFs include: VIG, DVY, SDY, VIG, HDV, and DLN. 1 Comment
Monday, April 29, 12:13 PM "Which has a higher P/E - Procter & Gamble (PG) or Google (GOOG)," asks the WSJ's Tom Lauricella. Enthusiasm for anything with yield has driven the P-E ratios of dividend payers (DVY) like P&G maybe way too high. Techs (XLK) with double-digit earnings growth, no debt, and massive cash balances trade at 12x, says MFS' James Swanson, while a utility (XLU) in Ohio is at 16x. "How far do you go with this game?" "Pretty far," says Templeton's Donald Taylor. "The macro environment (causing this) is not at all likely to change anytime soon." 7 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, April 17, 1:54 PM "The reach-for-yield forces have strengthened," writes Barclays' Barry Knapp, recommending investors stick with "bond-like" stocks. Stocks geared to global growth have been underperforming since February, he says, and now domestic cyclicals are starting to show pockets of weakness. DVY's total return is about 130 bps greater than the S&P 500 YTD. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Monday, April 1, 12:23 PM The S&P 500 (SPY) paid out $7.954/share in dividends in Q1, a 12.2% increase from a year ago, wrties Eddy Elfenbein, the 9th consecutive quarter of double-digit gains. As opposed to the last 2 bull markets, stocks and dividends have moved pretty much together, keeping the index's dividend yield right around 2%. 1 Comment
Thursday, March 14, 11:41 AM A couple of iShares (BLK) ETFs hauled in a large amounts of assets yesterday. The High Dividend Equity Fund (HDV) saw an inflow of $281M, boosting AUM by nearly 11%, while the Core MSCI Emerging Markets Fund (IEMG) brought in $102M, boosting AUM by 15%. Comment! [Financials]
Friday, March 8, 1:00 PM S&P 500 companies are expected to pay out at least $300B in dividends this year, surpassing 2012's record of $282B. The number could go quite a bit higher depending on what Apple intends to do, and what the largest banks may be allowed to do (though Citi elected not to boost their dividend). DVY +8.1% YTD, not including the 3.4% yield. Comment!
Tuesday, February 19, 9:49 PM All of the slide presentations from IU"s InsideETFs conference are now available. One of interest shows how eligibility requirements on certain dividend indexes will keep out stalwarts like MSFT, IBM, ORCL, INTC, CSCO, and AAPL for years to come even as the same stocks account for significant holdings of other indexes with the name dividend on them. 1 Comment
Tuesday, February 19, 10:29 AM Of the $37.5B of flows into ETFs this year, 92% has gone into stock funds, according to ConvergEx, well above the typical ratio of 65-70%. U.S. stocks garnered the biggest share at 42%, while Japanese ETFs (see WETF) saw 8%. Dividend ETFs (DVY) have received nearly $4B already this year vs. $9B for all of 2012. Previous: "Fear fatigue." Comment!
Monday, February 11, 10:39 AM Stocks outdo bonds as the 1.6K companies in the MSCI World Index yield 2.7% vs. 2.6% on the BAML Global Corporate Index, according to Bloomberg. Yielding just 6.1% the gap of junk bonds over equities is at its lowest since 1995. "Increasingly, dynamic capital allocators are being forced to consider equities," says one bullish strategist. 1 Comment
Monday, January 7, 11:33 AM More on dividend increases: In 2012, 2,883 firms increased their dividends, against 275 lowering their dividends. Forward yield hit an all-time high and actual cash payments increased 18% in 2012. The yield increased throughout 2012 ending flat at 2.80%. The report expects 2013 to be setting another record for regular cash dividends. Comment!
Monday, January 7, 11:16 AM Net dividend increases totaled $8.4B in Q4, according to S&P. 1,262 firms increased their dividends, up 94.5% Y/Y, vs. just 154 lowering. Of more import, the payout ratio remains at 36% against long-term average of 52%. 1 Comment [Dividends]
Sunday, January 6, 8:56 AM While the preferred stock (PFF) led the income pack in 2012 with a total return of 18.2%, the current risk-reward profile isn't great, says Barclays' Shobhit Gupta, with the upside capped by the issuer call option, and significant downside if rates rise. One overlooked class for investors: Convertible Bonds (CWB). Barron's overview of the income sector. 26 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Thursday, January 3, 9:02 AM Dividend stocks are attractive following the Cliff deal, says BlackRock's Russ Koesterich, noting just a modest bump in dividend tax rates affecting just a small ratio of taxpayers. Current low payout ratios give companies ample room to raise payouts. Avoid Treasurys, he says, and focus on credit sectors (HYG, PDI, IVR - just to name a few), and municipals (MUB). 6 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Monday, December 31, 2012, 12:44 PM Breaking down the S&P 500 by dividend yield into 10 groups of 50 stocks each, Bespoke finds the highest yielders (which include a lot of Utilities) at 2012's start were the year's worst performers - falling an average 0.6% vs. the average S&P stock gain of 12%. 2 Comments

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