Can Dividends-Satisfy The Rising Demand For Yield?

Global dividends hit a record high in 2024, with $606.1 billion paid in Q2 alone, as tech giants like Meta and Alibaba entered the dividend-paying market. Equity yields remain low compared to bonds, with the FTSE All-World index yielding 1.86% in September 2024, while the FTSE World Government Bond index yield to maturity stood at 3.03%. Dividend-focused strategies can enhance income potential in equity portfolios by prioritising high-dividend-paying sectors and reducing risks of dividend cuts.

Seeking Alpha • Oct 16, 2024

Equity Income Investing Redux

The last 12 months have been difficult for equity income investors. The top 20% of dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500 Index have returned 13.5% in the 12 months through March.

Seeking Alpha • Apr 23, 2024

Very Good News For Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks, including REITs and utilities, have underperformed in recent years. Rising interest rates and increasing costs of capital have contributed to the underperformance. The beginnings of a strong dividend stock rally may have just begun on the back of some very good news.

Seeking Alpha • Mar 11, 2024

2023 Global Dividend Rebalance

WisdomTree conducts an annual rebalance of its Global Dividend Index, with 5,410 selected companies from the U.S. and other countries. Japanese equities have seen significant dividend growth since the end of 2019, outpacing other markets.

Seeking Alpha • Oct 28, 2023

Dividend Investing: Broader Is Better For Multi-Asset Strategies

Investing in dividend-paying stocks has proved to be a helpful strategy, outperforming global markets over the long term. Dividend income strategies play an important role for multi-asset income portfolios. But they can also run the risk of being too narrowly focused, which can limit both income potential and upside participation when equity markets rise.

Seeking Alpha • Apr 7, 2023

Taming Biases In High-Dividend Equity Strategies

Stocks paying higher dividends showed their mettle during a challenging 2022: the S&P 500 High Dividend Index declined only a modest –1.1% even as the S&P 500 tumbled –18.1%. In our view, much of the volatility in high-dividend strategies, broadly speaking, comes down to portfolio design choices, which can create very different characteristics.

Seeking Alpha • Mar 23, 2023

U.S. Fund And ETF Investors Continue To Favor Foreign Issues In 2023

Investors were net purchasers of money market funds while being net redeemers of equity funds, tax-exempt fixed income funds, and taxable bond funds for the week. For the week, the average equity fund (including ETFs) witnessed market declines of 1.01%, while its taxable fixed income counterpart declined 0.23%.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 28, 2023

Falling Market Prices But Growing Dividends

U.S.-centric investors have been accustomed to even fewer declines. Equities had only one negative return of less than 5% during the same period. As earnings have continued to trend positively, dividend payouts - which tend to be far less volatile than stock prices - have shown continued growth.

Seeking Alpha • Nov 10, 2022

An Experienced Approach to Value Investing With WisdomTree

WisdomTree has long established itself as an innovator and experienced ETF issuer, having launched one of the only non-market-cap-weighted ETF options on the market in June, 2006.

ETF Trends • Sep 28, 2022

February Dividend Update: Outperformance Continues

More than $14 billion has flown into dividend-focused ETFs in the first two months of the year, compared to less than $2 billion over the same period in 2021.

Seeking Alpha • Mar 8, 2022