DIEM vs EDOG

DIEMBFranklin Emerging Market Core Dividend Tilt Index ETF

EDOGCALPS Emerging Sector Dividend Dogs ETF

In short

DIEM Most emerging-market dividend funds hunt the fattest yields. DIEM starts from a broad EM benchmark and leans toward payers instead, keeping the market's shape intact, for a fraction of what its dividend-focused rivals charge.

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

DIEM The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Morningstar Emerging Markets Dividend Enhanced Select Index.

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

• DIEM At 0.19% a year it's the cheapest fund in its emerging-market dividend cohort, roughly a third of the group's median fee.
• Tilt, not lurch: the index takes a broad emerging-market parent benchmark and optimizes for higher dividend yield while limiting expected tracking error back to it.yahoo.comfranklintempleton.com
• Roughly 200 holdings spread across emerging markets, with income paid quarterly.

• 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

• DIEM Thinly traded next to the category's household names, so spreads can run wider and larger orders need more care.
• It launched in 2016 under a different name and mandate; the dividend-tilt index arrived in 2022, so the earliest track record reflects a different strategy.cbonds.com
• The income lean is bounded by design. Staying close to the parent index means less yield punch than funds that screen only for the highest payers.yahoo.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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