Dividend Advisor Hotline – Friday, May 25, 2018

TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $76.40, Toronto symbol TD, raised its quarterly dividend 11.7% with the May 2018 payment. Investors now receive $0.67 a share, instead of $0.60. The new annual rate of $2.68 yields 3.5%.

The bank also reported-stronger-than-expected earnings for its fiscal 2018 second quarter, which ended… Read More

Dear Pat: Please could you give me your opinion of the new Forensic Accounting ETF as a better way to invest in the S&P 500? It would seem sensible to select only the better performers from any index that you want to invest in. Thank you.

Forensic Accounting ETF, $30.34, symbol FLAG on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 250,000; Market cap: $7.6 million; www.flagetf.com), is a recently launched exchange traded fund that uses its own “five step” approach to rank each company in the S&P 500 index. The ETF’s MER is 0.85%.

The Forensic… Read More