Recently, Brad Kenagy presented a wonderful article (The Best ETF For Dividend Growth Investors), in which he provided comprehensive descriptions of the 18 dividend-oriented ETFs with more than $1 billion in assets.
Brad covered, among other things, the underlying index for each fund, stock selection methodology, total-return performance, expense ratios, and dividend yields.
It’s been years since I studied dividend ETFs in detail. My earlier studies had led me to invest in two (SCHD and SPHD), and I hadn’t looked at the overall field since then. In the intervening years, several new dividend