Standard & Poor’s publishes the widely followed S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. This index ” measures the performance of large cap, blue chip companies within the S&P 500 that have followed a policy of increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years.” The index is composed of 51 companies and the five-year total …
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STOXX, the leading European index provider, launched a new index called “The STOXX Europe Maximum Dividend 40 Index“. Derived from the STOXX Europe 600 index, this index is a blue-chip index comprising the 40 highest dividend-yielding companies across Europe and represents companies with the highest expected dividend yield in the upcoming quarter. The key features …
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The STOXX Select Dividend family of indices offers investors an ideal way to track high-dividend-paying companies in many regions including Europe, Enlarged Europe, Nordic, Americas, Global and Asia/Pacific. Investors looking to select high dividend payers can use these indices as a starting point for further research. To download the STOXX Select Dividend Indices in Excel …
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Last month S&P launched a new index called the S&P Emerging Asia 40 Index to provide exposure to the 40 largest and most liquid securities from the emerging markets of China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.The Index offers equal exposure to two distinctive regions: with 20 stocks from China and India and 20 …
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