International Dividend Achievers Index - DAT
Click here for a downloadable file of DAT's constituents, following reconstitution.
The reconstitution is effective after the Close of Trading on January 27, 2012.

Dividend Achievers™ is an objective composite of companies with a history of increasing dividend payouts. This select group of companies is committed to enhancing shareholder value through the return of capital to shareholders. Indxis maintains the Dividend Achievers™ indices, which may be licensed as investable products, including mutual funds, ETFs, UITs, structured products, separately managed accounts, and others.

To qualify as Dividend Achiever, a company must have increased its dividend payout each year for the last ten or more consecutive years and meet certain liquidity requirements.

• Companies that pay regular dividends tend to be in better financial health and produce sustained earnings and revenue growth.
• Dividends help identify well-managed companies; every dividend declaration represents a promise by management and a vote of confidence by the board of directors in the company's leadership.
• Companies that consistently raise their dividend payouts also raise the bar on their own performance expectations.
• Shares of dividend-paying companies possess built-in value that makes them generally more resilient in down markets, with solid appreciation potential during earnings-driven market upturns-with less price volatility.

The Dividend Achievers™ history traces back to 1979, when Moody's Investor Service developed a proprietary model to identify best-of-breed dividend-paying companies. Four years later, Moody's created the first Handbook of Dividend Achievers™, in recognition of these companies. In 1998, Mergent, Inc. acquired Moody's Investor Service and rebranded the handbook under the Mergent name.

In 2003, Mergent created an investment methodology to translate its extensive historical financial and dividend data into an authoritative investment index-The Broad Dividend Achievers™ Index. Later that year, Mergent announced its first index licensing agreement with BlackRock, Inc., and launched the BlackRock Dividend Achievers™ Trust. Today, investment products based in the Dividend Achievers methodology have in excess of $11 billion in assets under management, and are offered by major financial firms including BlackRock, Vanguard, Invesco Powershares and others.

Mergent continues to publish the Handbook of Dividend Achievers. The Handbook is a highly regarded reference book for individual investors, providing detailed profiles on each company in the Dividend Achievers™ Index, plus listings of various statistical subdivisions within the index, such as asset size, earnings growth, total return and more.

Each company profile includes:

• Stock performance charts
• Dividend records
• Business descriptions & analysis of recent developments
• 10-year average annual dividend growth rate
• Historical total returns
• Financial ratios