The following is an excerpt from John Burke at Wall St. Sector Selector
In this space, we frequently focus on investments which can be solid sources of dividends payments for retired investors. With Treasury bonds paying such low yields, retired investors measure their “bang for the buck” by comparing the dividend yields of various investments.
As we often discuss, dividends-paying ETFs can save one the trouble of doing the research across the universe of dividends-paying stocks to find the right choices. We make a point of directing your attention to as many of those ETFs as we can.
One of the popular dividends-paying ETFs is the GlobalX SuperDividend u.s. ETF (NYSE MKT:DIV). DIV is designed to track the price and yield performance of the INDXX SuperDividend U.S. Low Volatility Index. This index is based on 50 equal-weighted stocks, which have been selected because they have a high dividend yield and low volatility. Its top ten holdings include two tobacco companies, Reynolds American (NYSEARCA:RAI) and Altria Group (NYSEARCA:MO), so if you are averse to investing in an ETF with tobacco companies among its top components, you might not be interested in DIV
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