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.