The exchange-traded fund specialist highlighted the popularity of income and dividend related strategies among European investors amid a low return environment.

WisdomTree has listed a series of accumulating share classes for its diversified equity income and small cap UCITS exchange-traded funds on the London Stock Exchange.

The announcement of a further 10 share classes for WisdomTree’s UCITS ETFs comes swiftly after the firm’s launch of a British pound-hedged accumulating share class for its US equity income UCITS ETF. The new share classes cover equity income strategies for the US, Europe and emerging markets as well as European small caps.

“Investors appreciate that dividend reinvestment can provide substantial benefits to long-term investment strategies and this is especially the case for WisdomTree’s unique dividend weighted approach. These new share classes provide investors with flexibility, as well as adding to operational and fiscal efficiency,” said Nizam Hamid, ETF strategist at the firm. 

“We believe that providing a choice of both distributing and accumulating share classes allows investors to tailor their investment and income profile.”

The firm noted that over the past decade dividend growth and dividend yields have contributed to 78.6 per cent of total returns for the MSCI ACWI index.