Are you a bit bored with the sleepy trajectories of investments in multinational conglomerates? Want to add some torque to your dividend investments? Earlier this year, in an article on obscure dividend facts, I wrote about an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) focused on the small-capitalization members of the Russell 2000 Dividend Growers Index, the ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers ETF (NYSEMKT: SMDV).
The Russell 2000 Dividend Growers is a fascinating index, as it borrows from the concept of "Dividend Aristocrats," i.e., stocks in the S&P 500 Index which have raised shareholder dividends for 25 years or more. The Russell 2000 version, and by extension, SMDV, focuses on small-capitalization companies that have notched annual dividend increases for at least 10 years.
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