FRANKFURT, Germany – February 25, 2025 – MarketVector Indexes™ ("MarketVector"), a global index provider recognized for thematic and factor-based indexing, and XENIX, the index owner known for its ETF ratings and awards in Europe, have launched “The Dividends 500 Index”, officially known as the MarketVectorTM XENIX Global Dynamic Dividends 500 Index. This benchmark serves European ETF issuers and financial product developers by selecting the top 500 high-dividend-yield stocks across developed and emerging markets.

“Our goal was to design a broad 500-high dividends world index. According to our own research, this dividend global equity index is the world's first and only high-dividend yield index combining 500 stocks with above-average dividends in a broad benchmark for developed and emerging markets,” said Dr. Markus Thomas, Founder and CEO of XENIX. “We use quality and momentum filters to combine high-dividend yields with the performance of global equity markets.” 

The Dividends 500 Index is positioned as a new benchmark for global high-dividend investing, applying a quality selection process that prioritizes high dividend yields and price momentum across a globally diversified benchmark of 500 stocks. It will be the flagship of a growing index family. 

“Just calculating the annual dividend yields in euros for up to 5,000 different stocks that paid a dividend in 2024 and could theoretically qualify for our 500-stock global dividend index was an essential and monumental task,” said Thomas Kettner, Chief Operating Officer at MarketVector. “However, this rigorous proprietary process allowed us to establish clear quality criteria and selection filters. As a result, we constructed a stable and truly global 500-stock dividend index that, in backtesting for the years 2023 and 2024, consistently achieved a gross index dividend yield of over 5% per year.”

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