DWS Investments today announced the launch of the DWS Invest Emerging Markets Top Dividend Plus fund in France. The DWS Invest Emerging Markets Top Dividend Plus fund offers an emerging market equity strategy combined with the opportunity for current income. The fund invests in emerging market stocks that are expected to offer dividend yields higher than the market average, layered with a regional and thematic approach.
By combining the long term growth potential of emerging markets with a stable and sustainable dividend strategy, DWS Invest Emerging Markets Top Dividend Plus provides full emerging markets exposure across geographies and sectors with high quality stock selection. The fund’s objective is to offer a risk cushion in the historically volatile emerging markets asset class.
In emerging markets dividends generate an important part of total equity return. The fundamentals on the dividend strategy are well proven:
Dividends return cash to shareholders
Consistent dividend policy sends a strong message on continuity and reliability
The scarcer resource (earnings after dividends) tends to be used more efficiently
Andreas Wendelken, manager of the DWS Invest Emerging Markets Top Dividend Plus fund declared: “The long term investment perspectives for emerging markets are still very interesting. The region offers a variety of companies characterized by stable cash flows and earnings as well as a solid balance sheet and sustainable dividend payments. Currently, opportunities lay first and foremost in the ASEAN Region in particular Indonesia and even more so Taiwan as one of the most attractive dividend yield countries within the emerging markets universe.”
Philippe Goettmann, Head of Sales of DWS Investments in France, explained: “One year after launching our global equity dividend flagship fund DWS Top Dividende in France, we are bolstering our product range because we are more convinced than ever that the dividend strategy is well suited for French investors. Emerging markets have become ‘core’, but investors will need to diversify between styles and the dividend must not be ignored. At the nexus of DWS Investments’ emerging markets and dividend expertise, this fund taps into a true mega-trend in equities investing.”
