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Under typical conditions, the fund allocates at least 95% of its total assets (not including collateral generated from securities lending) to the constituent securities of its benchmark index, or to other financial instruments possessing substantially similar economic attributes. This underlying index tracks small-capitalization companies that issue dividends and are situated within industrialized economies globally, with the specific exclusion of the United States and Canada. The fund is classified as non-diversified.
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It's becoming increasingly clear that tariff tensions between the United States and the rest of the world won't be going away any time soon. Last Friday, the U.S. imposed a series of tariffs on 60 different trading partners, including China, Canada, and the European Union.
The international small-cap equities space may be one of the most overlooked value prospects available to investors right now. In the last two years, the MSXI EAFE Small Cap Index—focused on developed nation small-cap stocks outside of the United States and Canada—has seen some of its lowest valuations relative to domestic large-cap names in decades.
International small-cap value and dividend strategies have quietly become two of the better-performing corners of global equity markets, and the two most popular vehicles to capture them are the Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF (NYSEARCA:AVDV) and the WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSEARCA:DLS).
Market participants in the U.S., broadly speaking, already perceive international equities as being more volatile than domestic equivalents. They also believe that scenario is amplified with smaller stocks.
The S&P 500 is easy for investors to access, but it's dominated by large-cap U.S. companies. An ideal complement to these holdings is the WisdomTree International SmallCap Dividend Fund.