Dividends for Days: Breaking Down the Vanguard VIG ETF February 8, 2021
Dividend-paying stocks are coming back into style after some turbulence last year, meaning cost-conscious investors may want to revisit a familiar friend in the
VIG seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of common stocks of companies that have a record of increasing dividends over time. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Nasdaq US Dividend Achievers Select Index, which consists of common stocks of companies that have a record of increasing dividends over time.
The requirement for entry into VIG’s underlying index is for companies to meet a minimum dividend increase streak of 10 years.
While old school real estate exchange traded funds may need a refreshing, the
The Pacer Benchmark Data & Infrastructure Real Estate SCTR ETF is a strategy-driven ETF that aims to offer investors exposure to U.S. companies that generate the majority of their revenue from real estate operations in the data and infrastructure sectors. There are significant real estate demands associated with the 5G rollout, enhancing the 5G ETF status of the Pacer Benchmark Data & Infrastructure Real Estate SCTR ETF.
What makes SRVR a compelling choice for real estate investors today is its exposure to industries that are usually underweighted in traditional ETFs dedicated to this sector.
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The investment seeks to provide investment results that track the performance of the Nasdaq Q-50 Index before fees and expenses. The fund aims to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its assets in securities in the index. The index comprises the 50 largest non-financial domestic and international companies listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market based on market capitalization after excluding the companies included in the Nasdaq-100 Index.
QQQN “offers an opportunity to invest in the next generation of disruptive companies those with proven business models but, presumably, at an earlier stage with still long runways of potential growth. In other words, imagine owning some of the companies destined for Nasdaq-100 Index in their formative years,” according to VictoryShares.
January 15, 2021
The financial services sector is on a path redemption after flailing for much of 2020 on the back of low interest rates and several other headwinds. Investors looking to capitalize on that trend can ratchet up gains with the
Up 6% to start 2021, PFI tracks the Dorsey Wright Financials Technical Leaders Index, which is rooted in Dorsey Wright’s notorious relative strength methodology.
“The Index is designed to identify companies that are showing relative strength (momentum), and is composed of at least 30 securities from the NASDAQ US Benchmark Index. Relative strength is the measurement of a security’s performance in a given universe over time as compared to the performance of all other securities in that universe,” according to Invesco.