QDF allocates just 9% of its combined weight to interest rate-sensitive telcom and utilities stocks. Financial services is the ETF’s largest sector weight at almost 20%, but a combined 24% goes to the technology and industrial sectors, two the best-performing sectors in rising rate environments. [Safe Dividend ETFs]
QDF, which hit an all-time high last Friday, is up almost 18% in the past year. Investors have become fans of the ETF this year, pouring $146.5 million into the ETF.
FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund
