DOL vs SCHY

DOLBWisdomTree True Developed International Fund

SCHYASchwab International Dividend Equity ETF

In short

DOL The 2006-vintage WisdomTree international dividend fund, rebranded in 2025 with a wider map: its index now treats Korea, Taiwan and Poland as developed, and weights holdings by the cash dividends companies pay rather than by market cap.

SCHY Schwab's dividend playbook with a passport: an index of non-US high payers filtered for sustained dividends, financial strength and low volatility, run for 0.08% a year while the typical fund in its group charges 0.50%.

Stated mandate

DOL The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the WisdomTree True Developed International Index. It uses passive indexing and generally representative sampling.

SCHY The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, an index of high-dividend-yielding stocks issued by companies outside the United States. Its index methodology emphasizes sustained dividend payments, relative financial strength, and lower volatility.

Why people hold it

• DOL Dividend-weighted, not cap-weighted: position sizes come from the cash dividends companies actually pay, so weight follows payouts rather than share prices.wisdomtree.comwisdomtree.com 2
• Wider developed map than most rivals. Korea, Taiwan and Poland count as developed here, putting names like TSMC and Samsung inside a developed ex-US sleeve.wisdomtree.com
• Passively run since 2006 on representative sampling, and it has tracked its index closely, placing it in the upper half of its international dividend peer group.
• Roughly 300 large dividend payers, all screened for an actual cash payout, with distributions passed along quarterly.wisdomtree.com

• SCHY Costs 0.08% a year against a 0.50% median for international dividend screens, one of the cheapest ways to rent this strategy.
• The index does more than chase yield: it screens for sustained payers, relative financial strength and lower volatility. Cash goes out quarterly.
• A plain passive tracker of the Dow Jones International Dividend 100 Index that has hugged its benchmark closely, with a multibillion-dollar base and shares that trade actively.
• Stands among the stronger implementations in its international dividend peer group on cost, tracking and tradability.

Worth knowing

• DOL At 0.48% it sits just under the peer median, but index rivals go far cheaper: VYMI charges 0.07% and SCHY 0.08%.
• Trades lighter than the category's biggest funds, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads at the moment you trade.
• Ex-U.S. and ex-Canada by design, and every holding must pay a dividend, so non-payers and Canadian blue chips are absent from the lineup.wisdomtree.com

• SCHY Roughly 130 stocks, a narrower net than a broad international fund. Dividend screens naturally bunch up in a handful of sectors and countries.
• Launched in 2021, so it carries a shorter live record than the veterans of international dividend investing.
• Two neighbors shave the fee a touch further: VYMI and VIGI charge 0.07%, though each screens for different things.

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