The Fund seeks to track the performance of an index composed of 30 stocks with leading dividend yields selected from companies in Eurozone countries.
Following on from the ‘What is your biggest holding’ thread
thought I’d share why IDVY are mine!
It was one of the first ETF’s I bought when I opened my Freetrade account when I had little knowledge of buying shares
At the time I wanted to steer away from the UK with brexit and so alongside a few other ETF’s this felt like a good option to diversify across Europe
Nice dividend yield @ 4.86% as well
They’re currently up 5.13% for me so quite happy really
Given that it’s in EUR aren’t your dividends taking a beating by the conversion rate Freetrade charge? Spot rate +0.45% right - what effect has that had on EUR dividends vs your actual return?
Even in your scenario, that would be a dividend yield of 4.86%*0.955. The difference is negligible.
Not something I’ve really considered tbh!
This ETF has many listings. On London Stock Exchange it is quoted and traded in GBP. Given enough liquidity there shouldn’t be FX penalty on buy/sell. Not sure if the LSE share class distributes dividends in € or £. I.e. some vanguard $ exposure ETFs pay out dividends in £ on either £ share classes. Thus FX penalty is paid in bulk by the ETF rather than by freetrade.
Current thoughts on IDVY?
A great way to diversify into eurozone shares! Personally I’d like to see ‘main blue chip companies’ individual shares on the platform with SAP, Heineken, LVMH, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk and Ferrari all on my radar.
Does anyone know what are their dividend ex and pay dates?
If you google it you’d find:
Dividendmax shows the next ex date as 10.10.20
ETF are known to not share payment dates very freely. But it’s quarterly, so just add 3 months roughly.
