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Russell High Dividend Yield Index Series


The Russell High Dividend Yield Index Series provides investment professionals with a set of objective, investable, rules-based indexes primarily focused on maximizing dividend yield while ensuring high-quality index membership.

This next generation index design screens stocks for dividend persistence and financial sustainability. The resulting indexes are well diversified, replicable and easily tradable.

Key features and benefits


Innovative dual-focused methodology.
A two-pronged approach is applied to determine eligibility and index membership. This innovative approach is intended to provide maximum yield by selecting high dividend yield companies from within a universe of high quality and financially sound stocks.

A focus on high dividend yield.
Dividend and financial metrics screen stocks for dividend persistence and financial sustainability — a method consistent with how dividend-focused managers define their opportunity set. The final index selection is based on a composite score ranking of dividend yield, dividend growth, and earnings variability.

Market capitalization-weighted.
The Russell High Dividend Yield Indexes are market capitalization-weighted providing diversification benefits.

Comprehensive and transparent.
An objective, rules-based methodology ensures the Russell High Dividend Yield Indexes are diversified, replicable, and easily tradable.

Russell expertise.
With $3.9 trillion in assets worldwide benchmarked to its indexes and clients in more than 35 countries, Russell combines global experience with expertise in equity index construction and manager evaluation to create groundbreaking investment tools.

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