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About ALPS International Sector Dividend Dogs ETF
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Inception date
Jun 27, 2013
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Distributes
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Tax on distributions
Qualified dividends
Primary advisor
ALPS Advisors, Inc.
Distributor
ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc.
IDOG launched at the end of June 2013 with a mandate to provide a high dividend yield from a portfolio of stocks with a balanced sector profile. The idea is to apply a modified version of the Dogs of the Dow strategy to a global universe of stocks. The term global is also modified, as IDOG only selects stocks from developed economies, excluding the US and Canada. The fund takes the 5-highest-yielding stocks from each of the 10 major sectors, for a total of 50 holdings. The goal is to eliminate the counter-cyclical sector biases present in traditional yield-weighted dividend strategies by picking the same number of stocks from each sector. The Underlying Index is reconstituted annually with quarterly rebalance. The fund's sibling fund, SDOG, applies the same strategy to the S&P 500.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Health Technology
Communications
Stocks99.25%
Finance10.95%
Health Technology10.21%
Communications10.17%
Consumer Durables9.93%
Energy Minerals9.69%
Utilities9.53%
Consumer Non-Durables9.28%
Electronic Technology8.12%
Transportation5.89%
Non-Energy Minerals5.63%
Process Industries2.10%
Industrial Services2.06%
Producer Manufacturing2.05%
Technology Services1.97%
Retail Trade1.67%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.75%
Cash0.45%
Mutual fund0.31%
Stock breakdown by region
Europe70.98%
Asia21.54%
Oceania7.48%
North America0.00%
Latin America0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history