Global #Dividends to Reach Near-Record Payouts. These are the #ETFs to Buy

Global Dividends to Reach Near-Record Payouts? ETFs to Buy

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The pandemic has proven to be less detrimental to corporate profits than expected, thanks to super dovish monetary and fiscal policies.  

Global companies are so cash-rich that they are looking to start churning out dividends. 

According to a global study by Janus Henderson Investors, as quoted on a Bloomberg article, payouts are expected to touch $1.39 trillion this year, the second-highest total ever. 

Janus believes that dividends will touch pre-pandemic highs within a year.

Mining companies remain among the biggest dividends payers, benefiting from the revival in commodity prices. Half of the restored payouts in Europe were from banks, Janus said. 

Now that dividend hikes are back, investors can look at the below-mentioned dividend ETFs:

#Vanguard Patented a Method to Avoid #Taxes on #MutualFunds

Wow! Pretty crazy! And brilliant I might add, although as Gabelli points out: "You're going against the intent of the system and finding ways to manipulate it," Gabelli said. "It's not good for confidence in the capital markets, and shame on Vanguard for doing it."

From Bloomberg: 

Vanguard Patented a Way to Avoid Taxes on Mutual Funds

By Zachary R. Mider, Annie Massa and Christopher Cannon May 1, 2019

By Zachary R. Mider, Annie Massa and Christopher Cannon

May 1, 2019

Like flipping a light switch, Vanguard Group Inc. has figured out a way to shut off taxes in its mutual funds.

The first to benefit was the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. Investors' end-of-year tax forms abruptly stopped showing capital gains in 2001, even as the fund went on to generate billions of dollars of them. By 2011, Vanguard had flipped the switch in 14 stock funds. In all, these funds have booked $191 billion in gains while reporting zero to the Internal Revenue Service.

This astounding success gives Vanguard funds an edge over competitors. Yet the world's second-largest asset manager has avoided drawing attention to it. Top executives at the Malvern, Pennsylvania-based firm don't want U.S. policymakers looking too closely at how they're doing it, according to a former insider.

But a review of financial statements and trading data shows that Vanguard relies substantially on so-called heartbeat trades, which wash away taxes by rapidly pumping stocks in and out of a fund. These controversial transactions are common in exchange-traded funds—a record $98 billion of them took place last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News—but only Vanguard has used them routinely to also benefit mutual funds.

Here's how it works: Vanguard attaches a more tax-efficient ETF to an existing mutual fund. Then the ETF siphons appreciated stocks out of the mutual fund without incurring taxes, often using heartbeat trades. Robert Gordon, who has written about the concept and is president of Twenty-First Securities Corp. in New York, calls it a tax "dialysis machine."

How to Spot a Heartbeat

Rapidly pumping money into and out of the exchange-traded portion of the Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund removes taxable gains for the benefit of the mutual fund's shareholders.

Beginning in 2017, outflows stretched over five days.

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Vanguard even got a patent on the design, valid until 2023, so competitors can't copy it.