iShares Cdn Dividend ETF (XDV-T)

How to increase dividends. These are all the same thing. You get exposure to Canadian large caps. There is no diversification by being in all three. ZWU-T should replace one of them to get utilities including pipelines and telcos and less reliance on the banks. Still Canada so you need international. ZWE-T is the best international dividend payers yielding 7% with a covered call overlay. ZWS-T is the best in the US. These are the two to add to the three. These should be in a registered portfolios if you are retired because there is no divined tax credit.

XDV-T vs. ZWC-T. Most stocks in those two indexes are similar. ZWC-T has a covered call overlay. XDV-T is more sector concentrated. He advocates that if you are in the market late in the investment cycle you want to be in a covered call strategy. It gives you a smoother ride.

$22,000 for an income dividend holding? He would consider just going with a dividend ETF. You get diversification amongst the blue chips. It gives you a dividend of about 4.5%.

Any ETF that focuses exclusively on dividends in that Canadian environment of large caps shouldn’t be classified as high risk. A pretty good place to hide if you have the proper time frame of 2-3 years.

He sees no problem holding this. If you are not overweight in the Canadian banks already, this is fine. This is a monthly dividend.

Hasn’t been buying this because he tends to have a lot of banks anyway and this is heavily into the banks. However, this is fine as everyone else is concerned. A good play. You might want to consider that we have had this good dividend play for quite a while now and maybe the thing to be looking at a little bit more is something that is more growth oriented.

Composed of dividend payers, not just dividend growers. He would have a hard time buying it here. But it should have really good support here and would sell on any pullback.

It’s okay. Ishares products tend to be market leaders, but VDY-T is a bit cheaper and more broadly diversified, and he prefers it.

Is a basket of names. He prefers HDV as there is more room for growth.

Likes it. Doesn`t use it because of a lot of bank stocks. He already has a lot of banks. Great product.

Likes this one. The only reason he doesn’t have more of it is that it has a lot of banks and he does a lot of Covered Calls on banks and doesn’t want to overweight his portfolio.