SPHD cherry-picks the US equity market, rather than delivering the whole basket. It includes the 50 least volatile names chosen from a shortlist of the S&P 500's 75 highest dividend-yielding securities. The fund then weights selected stocks based on trailing12-month dividend yield, with sector weights capped at 25%. Looking little like the broad large-cap market, SPHD tilts small and tends to overweight traditionally defensive industries like utilities and basic materials. The fund might also underweight the more volatile technology and consumer cyclical companies. The index is rebalanced semi-annually.
