"In VHY's case, it's exceedingly simplistic and highly exposed to the risk of loading up on stocks that are due for a correction (i.e. financials and miners in this case)"
Agree, I looked at it and that's why I gave it a miss, also I don't like mining companies and I seem to remember they were quite heavily in to them at the time. If a person thinks their top holdings are good buying at the present time and will continue to keep paying good divs then worth a buy perhaps, along with a couple of other ETF's. In the end decided not to go down the ETF route.
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6 0 WESFARMERS LIMITED 3961871 $ 169,449,222.67 10.9549% 1 RIO TINTO LTD 3245258 $ 167,293,049.90 10.8155% 2 BHP BILLITON LTD 7782324 $ 160,938,460.32 10.4047% 3 TELSTRA CORP LTD 28602538 $ 153,309,603.68 9.9115% 4 WESTPAC BANKING CORP 4604927 $ 142,982,983.35 9.2438% 5 COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRAL 1657723 $ 122,489,152.47 7.9189% 6 NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LTD 4344009 $ 118,113,604.71 7.6360% 7 AUST AND NZ BANKING GROUP 4828194 $ 117,180,268.38 7.5757%