Dividends can be a significant component of total return. - Christine Benz
Earlier in this quarter, I had highlighted to members of The Lead-Lag Report, the market's growing interest in the dividend-growth cohort of stocks. Themes such as this will continue to gain currency as the market looks to get more defensive. If you’re looking at a fund in this space, you may consider the First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index ETF (FDL), although as I will highlight later, there are also some risks associated with this.
FDL tracks the Morningstar Dividend Leaders