NOBL News and Press, ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF From 06/10/19

On a recent visit to the Sure Dividend site, I was surprised to find this chart. Yes, we might 'expect' the Aristocrats ( NOBL ) to outperform the broad market ( IVV ) through market corrections. That is the natural attraction of buying companies with a very meaningful dividend growth hist...

In a number of articles on Seeking Alpha, I have demonstrated for readers the long-run alpha achieved by the Dividend Aristocrats. Companies that have earned this distinction have increased dividends for twenty-five consecutive years. Collectively, these companies have higher risk-adjusted ret...

I was thinking the other day about the fact that most non-US investors are, for regulatory purposes, prevented from investing directly into US funds (including ETFs), whereas they are completely free to invest directly into individually listed US shares of stock. Interest in dividend growth in...

In May 2019, the Dividend Aristocrats ( NOBL ) managed to outperform the S&P 500 by 83bp, but the strategy's -5.52% return was still its worst absolute performance since the December selloff. In my dataset dating back to 1990, this was the 15th worst total return (out of 353) for the Divid...

“In summer, the song sings itself” --The Botticellian Trees, William Carlos Williams, 1931 The summer is getting off to a disharmonious start in 2019. Following a relentless +26% rally from Christmas Eve through the end of April, the S&P 500 Index turned cold in May...

At The Income Strategist , we focus on a variety of different income producing asset classes, but that doesn't mean we are always bullish on these asset classes. For example, while we have in-depth coverage of REITs and our portfolios are predominantly made up of REITs, we believe that despit...

Ten percent annual returns per year. That's what the stock market has averaged since 1926 . Accounting for inflation, average returns look more like 7% per year. But there are a few deeply deceptive aspects of this statistic. First, it conjures an image in the mind of a chart in which t...

A good article needs a catchy opening sentence to pull in an audience. How about this one? A systematic strategy that owned a select one-fifth of the S&P 500 ( SPY ) constituents had a cumulative return that was nearly 3x that of the broader market over the trailing quarter-century. ...

Dividend-paying stocks usually get punished in a rising rate environment. That rationale is that as rates on fixed income securities rise, they become more attractive to income-seeking investors than the more volatile common stocks of dividend-paying companies. So naturally, investors sell the...

Once again, the markets are near their all-time high barring some hiccups due to trade tensions this past week. It's already the longest bull market in history. However, it's widely believed that bull markets simply don't die of old age. Generally, bull markets end when there are some underl...