Morningstar Indexes: Are US Dividend Stocks Overvalued?
Morningstar Indexes: Are US Dividend Stocks Overvalued?
| Oct 27 2016
Investors are in hot pursuit of income in the equity market and the trend is evident in the asset flows numbers. According to Morningstar’s 2016 Strategic Beta Landscape report, dividend-screened/weighted ETPs are the most popular flavor of rules-based passive globally. In the US, they represent 27% of strategic beta assets; in Europe 43%. Several actively managed US equity funds with “dividend” in their names have bucked the trend toward passive, attracting significant flows.