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Launched on 12/02/2010, the Invesco KBW High Dividend Yield Financial ETF (KBWD) is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to provide a broad exposure to the Financials - Broad segment of the equity market.
An increasingly popular option among retail and institutional investors, passively managed ETFs offer low costs, transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency; they are also excellent vehicles for long term investors.
Sector ETFs are also funds of convenience, offering many ways to gain low risk and diversified exposure to a broad group of companies in particular sectors. Financials - Broad is one of the 16 broad Zacks sectors within the Zacks Industry classification. It is currently ranked 11, placing it in bottom 31%.
Index Details
The fund is sponsored by Invesco. It has amassed assets over $304.26 M, making it one of the average sized ETFs attempting to match the performance of the Financials - Broad segment of the equity market. KBWD seeks to match the performance of the KBW Nasdaq Financial Sector Dividend Yield Index before fees and expenses.
The KBW Nasdaq Financial Sector Dividend Yield Index is a dividend yield weighted index seeking to reflect the performance of approximately 24 to 40 publicly listed financial companies engaged in the business of providing financial services and products, including banking, insurance and diversified financial services, in the US.
Costs
When considering an ETF's total return, expense ratios are an important factor, and cheaper funds can significantly outperform their more expensive counterparts in the long term if all other factors remain equal.
Annual operating expenses for this ETF are 2.42%, making it one of the most expensive products in the space.
It has a 12-month trailing dividend yield of 8.20%.
Sector Exposure and Top Holdings
ETFs offer a diversified exposure and thus minimize single stock risk but it is still important to delve into a fund's holdings before investing. Most ETFs are very transparent products and many disclose their holdings on a daily basis.
This ETF has heaviest allocation in the Financials sector--about 96.30% of the portfolio.
Looking at individual holdings, Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC) accounts for about 4.59% of total assets, followed by New York Mortgage Trust Inc (NYMT) and Arlington Asset Investment Corp (AI).
The top 10 holdings account for about 39.06% of total assets under management.
Performance and Risk
The ETF has gained about 13.09% so far this year and it's up approximately 5.87% in the last one year (as of 02/18/2019). In that past 52-week period, it has traded between $18.90 and $23.79.