
By Todd Johnson : My father taught me, years ago, the old tutelage "Liars figure, and figures don't lie". I disregarded the phrase thinking I knew the ways of life. I was wrong. Retirement dollars should be deployed in "safer than usual" investments and watched like a hawk. I spent my salad days in
fundamental-index ETFs go by dividend- or yield-weighted methodologies. The first to launch, iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index DVY , is also the biggest. It screens stocks by whether they've grown or kept steady their dividends
Like most iShares funds, DVY engages in securities lending ..... SDY is a tad cheaper than DVY at a 0.35% price point ..... the risk of dividend cuts, iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index DVY excludes firms with current
and declining companies. IShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index DVY charges a 0.40% expense ..... year for the past 25 years. DVY 's portfolio yields more ..... idiosyncratic holdings of SDY and DVY but looking for decent yield
shouldering more distressed and declining companies. IShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index DVY charges a 0.40% expense ratio and attempts ..... every year for the past twenty-five years. DVY 's portfolio yields more but is especially
practices. Alternatives The natural rival to SDY, iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index DVY charges a 0.40% expense ratio and attempts ..... years or paid out more than 60% of earnings. DVY 's portfolio yields more but is also more cyclical
WisdomTree fund, VYM holds a larger portfolio of more than 500 names and charges 0.13% per year. IShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index DVY charges a heftier 0.40% expense ratio, but its yield-weighting methodology provides a deeper
VCIT you can see they are about the same...see chart The next logical (maybe) was to compare PIGIX to VWINX (also added DVY which is close to VYM because it has more history )...see 3 year chart and how PIGIX = VWINX...but wait the equity portion
ratio. If you're interested in dividends, you can consider any one of several fine options: iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index DVY (0.40% expense ratio), Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index ETF VYM (0.13%), and SPDR S
rotating out of hot emerging-markets dividend funds ( DGS , DEM ) and into defensive-minded domestic dividend plays like DVY , writes WisdomTree's Neil Leeson. "We may be ready for the pullback," he says, wishing "someone had put a dimmer switch