Comments on Dividend Growth Investor: Dividend ETF’s for busy investors

Dividend ETFs are the way to go if you want to get...

2009-03-01T14:58:00.000-08:00

Dividend ETFs are the way to go if you want to get paid for waiting for the recovery. In fact, high-yielding stocks did fairly well during the Great Depression.

Here is the complete list of high-yielding domestic ETFs.

Rod,Most dividend etf's invest in similar stocks. ...

2008-11-16T10:16:00.000-08:00

Rod,

Most dividend etf's invest in similar stocks. Paying a larger fee detracts from performance relative to other dividend etfs.
Furthermore despite investing in the dividend achievers, which consists of stocks that pay out increasing dividends, BDV hasn't changed its payout at all for several years. This implies that they are returning capital gains in addition to dividends.

Mike,

Thanks for the input. The VIG sounds like an interesting play. Vanguard does appear to have the lowest cost ETF's out there. The only issue is that they haven't been around for as long as the rest.

I would add them in future reviews of dividend etf's however.

Vanguard also has two Dividend ETF'sDividend Appre...

2008-11-15T12:47:00.000-08:00

Vanguard also has two Dividend ETF's

Dividend Apprec ETF VIG

High Dividend Yield ETF VYM

Highly correlated to all the other ETF's you mentioned and lower fees.

One of your comments may be a key observation that...

2008-11-15T10:08:00.000-08:00

One of your comments may be a key observation that could help new investors like me understand more. Discussing the BLack Rock Dividend Achievers Trust, which currently has by far the highest yield of all the stocks examined, you wrote, "This fund is a prime example of the fact that higher management fees do not lead to superior investment performance after all." To the new investor this looks like a contradiction, since you're implying that Black Rock has inferior investment performance despite having the highest yield. Could you please explain how and why that is so? Does performance have more to do with the long-term likelihood of a stock increasing in value, and less to do with short-term yield?

A good brief description of those ETF's DGI. Some...

2008-11-14T06:29:00.000-08:00

A good brief description of those ETF's DGI. Something you should definitely promote on the web for new investors interested in gaining exposure to dividends but avoiding the individual stock purchases until they feel confident enough to do so.