CGDG vs DIVD

CGDGACapital Group Dividend Growers ETF

DIVDBAltrius Global Dividend ETF

In short

CGDG Capital Group's stock pickers hunt dividend growers anywhere on the map, developed markets and emerging ones alike, and charge less than the typical active global fund to do it. Roughly 100 names, income paid quarterly.

DIVD An actively managed global dividend fund priced like an index product: 0.49% to hunt value-priced dividend payers across developed and emerging markets, with income paid out monthly.

Stated mandate

CGDG CGDG seeks long-term total returns by investing in companies worldwide with the potential to provide attractive yield and dividend growth over the long term.

DIVD The Fund seeks long-term capital growth and income. It is actively managed and identifies dividend-paying companies using attractive valuations and other financial characteristics.

Why people hold it

• CGDG Charges 0.47% a year, below the going rate for actively managed global equity ETFs. Cheap for a hand-picked portfolio, even if index products undercut it.
• The mandate is genuinely worldwide, developed and emerging markets both in scope, and it screens for dividend growth potential rather than chasing the fattest current yield.
• About 100 holdings, concentrated enough that individual picks carry real weight instead of getting diluted into an index-shaped blob. Distributions land quarterly.
• Rates among the strongest funds in a crowded global active-equity group, and one of the few there built specifically around dividend growers.

• DIVD Charges 0.49%, less than half the typical fee in its global dividend income peer group and unusually low for a hand-picked portfolio.
• Genuinely global mandate: developed international and emerging market dividend payers, not a US large-cap list wearing a world label.
• Pays monthly, so distributions arrive twelve times a year instead of in quarterly lumps.
• Stock picking is bottom-up value: valuation and financial characteristics drive the list, and the portfolio rates among the strongest in its small cohort.

Worth knowing

• CGDG Launched in 2023, so there's no decade of results to judge this team's approach through a full market cycle.
• Several highly rated global peers (GSWO, DFAW, AVGE) charge less. The extra fee here buys active selection, not broader coverage.
• Emerging-market holdings bring currency swings and country-specific risk that a US-only dividend fund doesn't carry.

• DIVD A small, thinly traded fund. Spreads can run wider and large orders are harder to fill than in a mega-cap index ETF.
• Launched in 2022, so the public record is short, and results ride on the manager's calls rather than a published index.
• The value screen means the holdings can look nothing like a broad global benchmark, and can drift from it for long stretches.

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