DEM vs EDOG

DEMBWisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund

EDOGCALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF

In short

DEM One of the original emerging-market dividend ETFs (2007). DEM ranks EM payers by yield, keeps only the top slice, then weights them by the actual dollars of dividends they pay. Income-first EM, not market-cap EM.

EDOG The Dogs of the Dow playbook, exported to emerging markets. EDOG's index hunts high-dividend stocks sector by sector rather than grabbing whatever corner of EM happens to yield most, then pays the income out quarterly.

Stated mandate

DEM The fund seeks to track high-dividend-yielding companies in emerging markets and provides targeted emerging-market all-cap equity exposure.

EDOG EDOG seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the S-Network Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs Index, which selects high-dividend stocks from emerging markets across sectors.

Why people hold it

• DEM Launched in 2007, it is one of the earliest EM high-dividend funds and has grown into a multi-billion-dollar portfolio spread across roughly 500 stocks.
• Weights companies by the cash dividends they actually pay, so dividend dollars rather than market cap drive the portfolio, with weights reset at the annual screening.sec.gov
• The screen is strict: only the highest-yielding 30% of WisdomTree's emerging-market dividend universe makes the index.sec.gov
• Hugs its index closely and sits among the easier funds in its peer group to get in and out of.

• EDOG Sector-by-sector construction: the index picks high-dividend EM stocks across sectors, so the portfolio doesn't collapse into one yield-heavy industry.alpsfunds.com
• 0.60% a year, in line with the typical emerging-market dividend fund. Roughly 50 stocks, income paid quarterly.
• Running since 2014 as a plain 1940 Act index ETF: no leverage, no derivatives overlay, and a decade-plus of live results through real EM cycles.

Worth knowing

• DEM At 0.63% a year it runs a touch above the typical fund in its peer group, and roughly triple index-tilt rival DIEM at 0.19%.
• Buying dividend dollars pulls the basket toward the biggest payers in a handful of countries and sectors; the index applies country and sector caps at each annual screening.sec.gov
• Payouts arrive quarterly and move with emerging-market dividends and currencies; a company paying today can stop paying tomorrow.wisdomtree.com

• EDOG A small, thinly traded fund. Spreads can run wider than in the category's giants, and bigger orders take more care to fill.
• Cheaper doors into EM dividends exist: DIEM charges 0.19% and EDIV 0.49% for the same broad job.
• A yield-first value screen tilts toward beaten-down names, and the fund discloses that distributions can include return of capital.alpsfunds.com

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