My readers will know that for our US holdings (for my wife's retirement accounts and my retirement accounts), I skimmed 15 of the largest cap Dividend Achievers (VIG) back in early 2015.
Here's Buying Dividend Growth Stocks Without Looking.
Now certainly the index did 'look' and it takes a more than an impressive company to make it into the Dividend Achievers Index that insists on at least 10 years of dividend growth; the companies must also pass the proprietary dividend health screens. In the end, I trusted professional portfolio construction methods compared