International REITs Outshine Among Dividend ETFs

In this holiday season, dividend ETFs continue their strong performance, especially U.S. dividend ETFs such as PEY, VIG, DVY. In our previous articles, we pointed out this trend. More detailed asset class performance trend can be found on this Market View page.Though foreign dividend ETFs (including emerging market stocks) have lagged behind their U.S. counterparts, the international REI (RWX) has inched up in the past month to become the best performer. The U.S. REIT (IYR) have been consolidating after strong performance earlier this year. Both ETFs have about similar annual dividend yield (3.46% and 3.48% respectively).... Read more