Income-oriented investors disgusted by the pitiful yields available in US fixed income securities during the past five years have turned increasingly to dividend ETFs. However, in the ETF world, dividend-oriented ETFs and ETFs constructed to pay owners the highest possible dividend yields aren’t necessarily the same thing. Today, we’ll compare 5 dividend-oriented ETFs with very … Read more
In the wake of the Chinese Evergrande collapse, the S&P 500 shed more than 2% last Monday. Analysts speculated that Chinese real estate contagion might be especially detrimental to Apple, Google and Netflix, all purported to have huge exposures to China. In fact, two major investment banks issued predictions last week that the market would … Read more
By Herbert Blank Dividend ETFs have seen major inflows in recent years. At a time when most fixed income ETFs have historically low yields, that interest is easy to understand. There are more than 100 US-listed ETFs categorized by Morningstar, ETF.com, ETF Stream and others as Dividend ETFs. Many of these use very different methodologies to satisfy … Read more