The latest Canada SPIVA® scorecard landed recently. While data up to the end of June 2018 was consistent with results from previous SPIVA Canada scorecards – active management once again found it challenging to beat the passive benchmarks – there were pockets of success. Here are a few highlights. Active managers found it difficult to Read more […]
Previously I discussed why preference for dividend-paying stocks may not have a strong theoretical footing, but could be grounded in behavioral and practical reasons. Furthermore, due to possible economic signaling generated by dividends, such strategies may be correlated with widely accepted factors like quality and value. This post demonstrates how specific dividend strategy indices may Read more […]
There are two major types of dividend strategies: Dividend growers: those targeting stocks that consistently grow their dividends over time High dividend yielders: those focusing on stocks that pay a high dividend yield In our paper “A Case for Dividend Growth Strategies,” we compared dividend growth strategies to high-dividend-yielding strategies and concluded that dividend growers, Read more […]
There are generally two types of dividend strategies: Dividend growers: Those targeting stocks that consistently grow their dividends over time High dividend yielders: Those focusing on stocks that pay a high dividend yield Not all dividend strategies are created equal These dividend strategies are constructed differently and may be used to accomplish different objectives. For Read more […]
With anemic global economic growth, investors have become leery about U.S. companies’ ability to grow earnings and increase dividends. Indeed, S&P 500 earnings declined for the fifth consecutive period in the second quarter of 2016 and even if the third quarter results are positive, the growth rate is likely to be very small. A potential Read more […]
Historically, three-year rolling returns have revealed consistent outperformance from the S&P 500® Dividend Aristocrats® Index, which is composed of quality companies with at least 25 consecutive years of dividend growth. Why look at rolling returns? Rolling returns offer a more robust way to show performance than traditional one-, three-, five- and ten-year trailing returns. Rolling Read more […]
How should an investor in a factor (or “smart beta”) index judge its performance? In this respect at least, smart beta is like any other strategy: you should evaluate it against the claims that its vendors made before you bought it. This requires some subtlety. Smart beta methodologies pick stocks based on fundamental or technical Read more […]
The hunt for stable income is an increasingly challenging task. Bond yields across major fixed income markets are at historically low levels, with some of the central banks in developed countries even going as far as adopting a negative rates policy. Together with an aging population that is living longer and relies predominantly on fixed Read more […]
Twenty years from now, some bright young analyst looking at data for the U.S. stock market could be excused for thinking that the S&P 500’s 2.4% total return for October 2014 was no big deal – just one more routine good month in a long bull run. If the analyst is particularly inquisitive, he might Read more […]
Some American football coaches are fond of citing the maxim that the best offense is a good defense — because even if your offense is having an unproductive day, a good defense means that you’re always in the game. A related principle applies to investing — in some environments, the best way to win is Read more […]
