Dividend Funds
There are more dividend funds available for investors in recent years. Dividends are becoming an increasing popular measure for investment performance. Here is a list of dividend funds I can find from various sources. I will update this list when I seek out more information over time.
iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund - DVY
Inception: 11/3/2003
Net Assets: $6,257,704,000
The iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Dow Jones Select Dividend Index (the "Index"). The Index is comprised of one hundred of the highest dividend-yielding securities (excluding REITs) in the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index, a broad-based index representative of the total market for U.S. equity securities.
PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio (PEY)
Inception: 12/9/2004
Net Assets: $459,690,000
PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio seeks investment results that, before expenses, generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Mergent Dividend Achievers 50 Index. The Index is comprised of the 50 highest-yielding companies with at least 10 years of consecutive dividend increases. There is no assurance that the price and yield performance of the benchmark index for the fund can be fully matched.
PowerShares International Dividend Achiever Portfolio (PID)
Inception: 9/15/2005
Net Assets: $170,843,000
The fund seeks investment results that correspond to the price and yield of an equity index called the broad Dividend Achievers Index. The Fund may invest 90% of its total assets in dividend paying non US common stocks that comprise the Broad Dividend Achievers Index. The stocks are selected principally on the basis of their consecutive years of dividend growth as pursuant to a proprietary selection methodology. The Fund may invest a small portion of the stocks in small and medium capitalization stocks.
PowerShares Dividend Achiever Portfolio (PFM)
Inception: 9/15/2005
Net Assets: $23,449,000
The fund seeks investment results that correspond to the price and yield of an equity index called the broad Dividend Achievers Index. The fund may normally invest 90% of its total assets in dividend paying common stocks that comprise the Broad Dividend Achievers Index.
StreetTRACKS SPDR Dividend (SDY)
Inception: 11/8/2005
Net Assets: $100,263,000
The Fund's investment objective is to replicate as closely as possible before expenses the price and yield of the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index (the "Dividend Index"). The Fund uses a passive management strategy designed to track the price and yield performance of the Dividend Index. The Dividend Index is designed to measure the performance of 50 highest dividend yielding S&P Composite 1500 constituents that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 25 years.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders (FDL)
Inception: 3/15/2006
Net Assets: $30,980,000
The Fund is an exchange-traded that seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield of an equity index called the Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index ETF (VIG)
Inception: 4/21/2006
Net Assets: $40.55 M
The Fund seeks to provide competitive long-term growth of capital and increasing income. The fund's target benchmark is the Mergent Dividend Achievers Select Index a subset of the Mergent Dividend Achievers Index a market-capitalization weighted index of stocks with a consistent history of increasing dividends. VIG and VDAIX are different classes of the same fund.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Investor Shares (VDAIX)
Inception: 4/27/2006
Net Assets: $67.74 M
The investment seeks to track the performance of a Mergent Dividend Achievers Select index that measures the investment return of common stocks that have a record of increasing dividends over time. The fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as weighting in the index. VIG and VDAIX are different classes of the same fund.
WisdomTree Dividend Funds
Inception Date: 6/16/2006
WisdomTree Investments, Inc. and its subsidiary develop domestic and international stock indexes that serve as the basis for exchange traded funds (ETFs) issued by the WisdomTree Trust, institutional funds, and other financial products sponsored by the company. Its subsidiary, WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc., is registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is the investment adviser to the WisdomTree Trust, a family of 20 fundamentally weighted ETFs based on proprietary dividend-weighted indexes. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is based in New York City. This fund manager issued 20 exchanged traded funds related to dividends. These funds are listed here.
WisdomTree Total Dividend Fund (DTD)
WisdomTree High - Yielding Equity Fund (DHS)
WisdomTree Dividend Top 100 Fund (DTN)
WisdomTree Large Cap Dividend Fund (DLN)
WisdomTree Mid-Cap Dividend Fund (DON)
WisdomTree Small Cap Dividend Fund (DES)
WisdomTree DIEFA Fund (DWM)
WisdomTree DIEFA High-Yielding Equity Fund (DTH)
WisdomTree International Dividend Top 100 Fund (DOO)
WisdomTree International Large Cap Dividend Fund (DOL)
WisdomTree International Mid-Cap Dividend Fund (DIM)
WisdomTree International Small Cap Dividend Fund (DLS)
WisdomTree Pacific ex-Japan High-Yielding Equity Fund (DNH)
WisdomTree Pacific ex-Japan Total Dividend Fund (DND)
WisdomTree Japan High - Yielding Equity Fund (DNL)
WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Dividend Fund (DFJ)
WisdomTree Japan Total Dividend Fund (DXJ)
WisdomTree Europe High - Yielding Equity Fund (DEW)
WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend Fund (DFE)
WisdomTree Europe Total Dividend Fund (DEB)
Claymore/Zacks Yield Hog ETF (CVY)
Inception: 09/21/06
Net Assets: $5 million
Claymore/Zacks Yield Hog ETF is an exchange-traded fund which employs a passive management investment approach designed to replicate, before expenses, the performance of the Zacks Yield Hog Index. There is no assurance that the price and yield performance of the Index can be fully matched.
The innovative Zacks Yield Hog Index is the highest yielding domestic index to date. Additionally, it is the first yield-oriented index to combine equities, preferred stocks, REITs, master limited partnerships, ADRs, and closed-end funds.
The objective of The Zacks Yield Hog Index(TM) is to select a diversified group of securities with the potential to outperform, on a risk adjusted basis, the Dow Jones US Select Dividend Index and other benchmark indices. Designed to identify companies with potentially high income and superior risk-return profiles, the index is adjusted quarterly or as required to assure timely stock selection. The index's constituent methodology utilizes multi-factor, proprietary selection rules to identify those securities that offer the greatest potential from a yield risk/return perspective, while maintaining global/industry diversification. The index is comprised of 125 to 150 of the highest ranking securities, chosen and weighted based on a rules based quantitative ranking methodology proprietary to Zacks. The Zacks Yield Hog Index(TM) is published by the American Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ZAXYH.
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF & Fund (VYM & VHDYX)
Inception: 11/16/06
Net Assets: $5 million
FTSE and Vanguard have co-developed a FTSE High Dividend Yield Index. The new custom index consists of stocks traded in the U.S. stock exchanges. Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are removed from the index. Stocks that have not paid a dividend during the previous 12 months are also removed from the index. The remaining stocks are ranked by annual dividend yield and included in the target index until the cumulative market capitalization reaches 50% of the total market cap of this universe of stocks.
Like many other Vanguard funds, this fund has two classes with slightly different management fees (0.25% versus 0.40%).
iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund - DVY
Inception: 11/3/2003
Net Assets: $6,257,704,000
The iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Dow Jones Select Dividend Index (the "Index"). The Index is comprised of one hundred of the highest dividend-yielding securities (excluding REITs) in the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index, a broad-based index representative of the total market for U.S. equity securities.
PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio (PEY)
Inception: 12/9/2004
Net Assets: $459,690,000
PowerShares High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers Portfolio seeks investment results that, before expenses, generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Mergent Dividend Achievers 50 Index. The Index is comprised of the 50 highest-yielding companies with at least 10 years of consecutive dividend increases. There is no assurance that the price and yield performance of the benchmark index for the fund can be fully matched.
PowerShares International Dividend Achiever Portfolio (PID)
Inception: 9/15/2005
Net Assets: $170,843,000
The fund seeks investment results that correspond to the price and yield of an equity index called the broad Dividend Achievers Index. The Fund may invest 90% of its total assets in dividend paying non US common stocks that comprise the Broad Dividend Achievers Index. The stocks are selected principally on the basis of their consecutive years of dividend growth as pursuant to a proprietary selection methodology. The Fund may invest a small portion of the stocks in small and medium capitalization stocks.
PowerShares Dividend Achiever Portfolio (PFM)
Inception: 9/15/2005
Net Assets: $23,449,000
The fund seeks investment results that correspond to the price and yield of an equity index called the broad Dividend Achievers Index. The fund may normally invest 90% of its total assets in dividend paying common stocks that comprise the Broad Dividend Achievers Index.
StreetTRACKS SPDR Dividend (SDY)
Inception: 11/8/2005
Net Assets: $100,263,000
The Fund's investment objective is to replicate as closely as possible before expenses the price and yield of the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index (the "Dividend Index"). The Fund uses a passive management strategy designed to track the price and yield performance of the Dividend Index. The Dividend Index is designed to measure the performance of 50 highest dividend yielding S&P Composite 1500 constituents that have followed a managed-dividends policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 25 years.
First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders (FDL)
Inception: 3/15/2006
Net Assets: $30,980,000
The Fund is an exchange-traded that seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield of an equity index called the Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index ETF (VIG)
Inception: 4/21/2006
Net Assets: $40.55 M
The Fund seeks to provide competitive long-term growth of capital and increasing income. The fund's target benchmark is the Mergent Dividend Achievers Select Index a subset of the Mergent Dividend Achievers Index a market-capitalization weighted index of stocks with a consistent history of increasing dividends. VIG and VDAIX are different classes of the same fund.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Investor Shares (VDAIX)
Inception: 4/27/2006
Net Assets: $67.74 M
The investment seeks to track the performance of a Mergent Dividend Achievers Select index that measures the investment return of common stocks that have a record of increasing dividends over time. The fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as weighting in the index. VIG and VDAIX are different classes of the same fund.
WisdomTree Dividend Funds
Inception Date: 6/16/2006
WisdomTree Investments, Inc. and its subsidiary develop domestic and international stock indexes that serve as the basis for exchange traded funds (ETFs) issued by the WisdomTree Trust, institutional funds, and other financial products sponsored by the company. Its subsidiary, WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc., is registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is the investment adviser to the WisdomTree Trust, a family of 20 fundamentally weighted ETFs based on proprietary dividend-weighted indexes. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is based in New York City. This fund manager issued 20 exchanged traded funds related to dividends. These funds are listed here.
WisdomTree Total Dividend Fund (DTD)
WisdomTree High - Yielding Equity Fund (DHS)
WisdomTree Dividend Top 100 Fund (DTN)
WisdomTree Large Cap Dividend Fund (DLN)
WisdomTree Mid-Cap Dividend Fund (DON)
WisdomTree Small Cap Dividend Fund (DES)
WisdomTree DIEFA Fund (DWM)
WisdomTree DIEFA High-Yielding Equity Fund (DTH)
WisdomTree International Dividend Top 100 Fund (DOO)
WisdomTree International Large Cap Dividend Fund (DOL)
WisdomTree International Mid-Cap Dividend Fund (DIM)
WisdomTree International Small Cap Dividend Fund (DLS)
WisdomTree Pacific ex-Japan High-Yielding Equity Fund (DNH)
WisdomTree Pacific ex-Japan Total Dividend Fund (DND)
WisdomTree Japan High - Yielding Equity Fund (DNL)
WisdomTree Japan Small Cap Dividend Fund (DFJ)
WisdomTree Japan Total Dividend Fund (DXJ)
WisdomTree Europe High - Yielding Equity Fund (DEW)
WisdomTree Europe Small Cap Dividend Fund (DFE)
WisdomTree Europe Total Dividend Fund (DEB)
Claymore/Zacks Yield Hog ETF (CVY)
Inception: 09/21/06
Net Assets: $5 million
Claymore/Zacks Yield Hog ETF is an exchange-traded fund which employs a passive management investment approach designed to replicate, before expenses, the performance of the Zacks Yield Hog Index. There is no assurance that the price and yield performance of the Index can be fully matched.
The innovative Zacks Yield Hog Index is the highest yielding domestic index to date. Additionally, it is the first yield-oriented index to combine equities, preferred stocks, REITs, master limited partnerships, ADRs, and closed-end funds.
The objective of The Zacks Yield Hog Index(TM) is to select a diversified group of securities with the potential to outperform, on a risk adjusted basis, the Dow Jones US Select Dividend Index and other benchmark indices. Designed to identify companies with potentially high income and superior risk-return profiles, the index is adjusted quarterly or as required to assure timely stock selection. The index's constituent methodology utilizes multi-factor, proprietary selection rules to identify those securities that offer the greatest potential from a yield risk/return perspective, while maintaining global/industry diversification. The index is comprised of 125 to 150 of the highest ranking securities, chosen and weighted based on a rules based quantitative ranking methodology proprietary to Zacks. The Zacks Yield Hog Index(TM) is published by the American Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol ZAXYH.
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF & Fund (VYM & VHDYX)
Inception: 11/16/06
Net Assets: $5 million
FTSE and Vanguard have co-developed a FTSE High Dividend Yield Index. The new custom index consists of stocks traded in the U.S. stock exchanges. Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are removed from the index. Stocks that have not paid a dividend during the previous 12 months are also removed from the index. The remaining stocks are ranked by annual dividend yield and included in the target index until the cumulative market capitalization reaches 50% of the total market cap of this universe of stocks.
Like many other Vanguard funds, this fund has two classes with slightly different management fees (0.25% versus 0.40%).
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