Best tracker for ISA to profit from crash rebound ?

iShares FTSE UK Dividend Plus

i'll have a look - thanks

Do we have any idea how good the managers are at predicting dividends, though? It may be a more efficient vehicle than a normal unit trust, but if it's run by blithering idiots, it won't necessarily outperform one.

tom

They don't predict anything. It's an index tracker. I suggest you read the factsheets

Other related reading -

WM Virgin report on passive vs. active management and style investing

What Has Worked in Investing -

Daytona

Only in the most literal sense of the word.

I did. It tracks the FTSE UK Dividend+ Index; and what's that? From the index's factsheet [1]:

"The FTSE UK Dividend+ Index is a yield weighted index designed to select and measure the performance of higher yielding stocks within the universe of the FTSE 350 Index, excluding investment trusts. The FTSE UK Dividend+ Index selects the top 50 stocks by one-year forecast dividend yield."

An index based on *forecast* yield - ie, made up. It's not the managers of the iShares fund doing it, i did misunderstand that, bit it is the Markit Group Ltd - so do we have any idea how good *they* are at predicting dividends?

tom

Eh? The answer I gave is correct in all cases.

That surprised me, but on further reading the Markit Group makes use of the I/B/E/S database of broker forecasts.

No doubt that there's some research papers which have evaluated this.

Daytona