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BMO Europe High Dividend Covered Call Hedged to CAD ETZWE.TOCOMMENTOct 03, 2016
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Likes exposure to Europe, of which many Canadians have minimal exposure. ZWE looks at the dividend yields of its holdings. Plus, it does some covered writing, which gives you income along the way in tradeoff for upside. Attractive yield, but consider also owning some European stocks on their own. Nice piece of diversification for your portfolio, good bit of income.
In general, Europe is good value compared to US or NA markets. Lower PE and book value, higher dividend. This one has high dividend stocks, with covered call overlay. Up 11% YTD. Makes sense for cashflow. But ZWP, holding underlying securities, gives better total return. Yield is around 7.5%.
Europe has had some good growth already. The CAD hedging on this is helpful, especially if it’s in retirement accounts where your liabilities in the future are going to be in Cdn$. In general, this is going to be a basket of blue-chip European dividend players. If you saw some of the European valuations get a little bit closer to the US by 10%-20%, he would probably take it off.