2013's Top Performing Dividend ETFs And Ideas For 2014

FlexShares ETFs from Northern Trust Dominate Last Year's Performance This year's look back for the top performing dividend ETFs delineates between domestic U.S. equity dividend ETFs and a separate short list for top performing international and/or foreign non U.S. centric dividend ETFs. Some new upstarts from the venerable asset manager Northern Trusts' FlexShares (NTRS) have made a big splash with solid performance of not just one - but all three of their U.S. equity dividend ETFs; making the top five for performance for 2013 domestic dividend ETFs. It's always curious to me how at times the smaller "quiet" funds often outperform the bigger "popular kids" in the ETF landscape. These three FlexShares products, which commenced trading in December 2012, have provided some outsized performance (so far). No doubt these were marketed initially from their internal advisor channels but with solid performance will likely garner more investing attention from all investors.... Read more