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ETF Dividend Yield

April 21st, 2010

We are currently developing a system to help us making decision for our investment. It is not an automatic trading system. It is just a customized stock screener and filter. It will be used for Relative Strength Investing as well. We will be sharing the system in this blog later when it is complete and stable enough. We don’t have the timeline yet since we just do it as hobby in our spare time.

Our first project is a simple ETF screener. We gathered a list of all ETFs traded in the US stock exchange. Thanks to MasterDATA who has provided a free CSV file containing the complete list. Then we use data from Yahoo Finance! to generate various customized screeners. One of them is generating ETF dividend yield.

excel  Click here to download table of ETF dividend yield (in CSV format)

 

Here is the 15 ETFs that pay highest dividend as of today.

Symbol Dividend Dividend Yield
EDV 13.962 17.95%
JNK 4.504 11.25%
DRW 2.522 9.30%
HYG 8.018 8.98%
REM 1.325 8.52%
PHB 1.548 8.51%
PGF 1.356 7.83%
PGX 1.038 7.49%
GRI 2.118 6.48%
PCY 1.652 6.24%
PFF 2.382 6.15%
LWC 2.197 6.11%
IFGL 1.772 6.08%
FFR 1.809 5.62%
HYD 1.702 5.56%

 

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ETFs and Index Funds in Our Portfolio

March 11th, 2010

We have just added a new page in our blog, called Portfolio. You can access it from the links at the top of our blog. This page contains the complete picture of our portfolio. As we mentioned in our previous posting, we use ETFs and index mutual funds. We also use dollar-cost averaging in our retirement account. Lastly, we try to keep our portfolio as simple as possible.

15% US Index

  • PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 ETF (NASDAQ:QQQQ)
  • BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund (NYSE:CII)

15% Canadian Index

  • CIBC Canadian Index (CIB300)

15% Emerging Market Index

  • Claymore Canadian BRIC ETF (TSE:CBQ)
  • Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap ETF (NYSE:BRF)
  • Claymore/AlphaShares China Small Cap ETF (NYSE:HAO)

30% Fixed Income

  • TD Canadian Bond Index (TDB966)
  • iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bonds ETF (NYSE:HYG)
  • PowerShares Financial Preferred Portfolio ETF (NYSE:PGF)

5% REIT

  • Vanguard REIT ETF (NYSE:VNQ)
  • iShares Canadian S&P/TSX Capped REIT ETF (TSE:XRE)

Notes

  • For the US index, we basically invest in Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500. We use a closed-end funds (CII) for S&P 500 because of its dividend. Check also our posting here for a couple of different closed-end funds that replicates S&P 500.
  • Although Canada represents only 2% of the world GDP, we maintain a pretty high percentage of Canadian index. Why? It’s just because we live in Canada. Our “native” currency is Canadian dollar.
  • We know that CIBC Canadian Index might not be the best mutual funds. However, we have to keep it this way until end of next year.

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