Quantitative easing efforts by the European Central Bank have been a tailwind for exchange-traded funds that track European stocks.
While most investors may be swayed towards traditional large-cap offerings such as the Vanguard Europe ETF (NYSE: VGK), the real momentum has been in the small cap segment.
The WisdomTree Europe SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSE: DFE) has over $1 billion in assets dedicated to 340 small and mid-cap companies spread throughout Europe.
The most interesting facet of this ETF is that the underlying holdings are dividend weighted according to their annual cash distributions paid to shareholders.
The end result is heavy country exposure in the United Kingdom and Sweden, which geographically make up nearly 48 percent of ...
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