International · Dividend funds — returns ranked

All 16 International · Dividend funds in the SeeFund pool, ranked by annualised return over the window shown. Dividends reinvested, fund fees already deducted. Data as of 2026-09-22 — every figure on this page is history, not a forecast.

Window up to 10.0 years (each row shows its own history length in the last column) · returns net of fund fees · Market Data from Tiingo.com · This page is not investment advice.

Which international · dividend funds had the highest return?

Sorted by annualised return over the window (net of fees, dividends reinvested)
#	Fund	Return a year	Total return	Sharpe	Worst drop	Fee	Years
1	EWJV iShares MSCI Japan Value ETF	+13.5%	+160.5%	0.94	-30.0%	—	7.5
2	EYLD Cambria Emerging Shareholder Yield ETF	+11.8%	+205.7%	0.69	-41.8%	—	10.0
3	FYLD Cambria Foreign Shareholder Yield ETF	+11.7%	+201.2%	0.70	-44.6%	—	10.0
4	IVLU iShares MSCI Intl Value Factor ETF	+10.9%	+182.4%	0.69	-41.9%	—	10.0
5	FDD First Trust Stoxx European Select Dividend Index…	+10.8%	+177.9%	0.57	-41.4%	—	10.0
6	IDOG Alps International Sector Dividend Dogs ETF	+10.7%	+176.8%	0.68	-37.3%	—	10.0
7	VYMI Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index…	+10.6%	+173.9%	0.71	-40.0%	—	10.0
8	EFV iShares MSCI EAFE Value ETF	+10.1%	+160.9%	0.63	-43.2%	—	10.0
9	IDV iShares International Select Dividend ETF	+10.0%	+158.9%	0.59	-42.5%	0.15%	10.0
10	DOL WisdomTree International Largecap Dividend Fund	+9.6%	+150.9%	0.67	-36.0%	—	10.0
11	DEM WisdomTree Emerging Markets High Dividend Fund	+9.5%	+148.8%	0.61	-37.8%	—	10.0
12	DTH WisdomTree International High Dividend Fund	+9.1%	+139.1%	0.59	-40.7%	0.58%	10.0
13	FIVA Fidelity International Value Factor ETF	+8.8%	+108.6%	0.52	-39.7%	—	8.7
14	HDEF Xtrackers MSCI EAFE High Dividend Yield Equity ETF	+8.7%	+130.8%	0.60	-36.4%	—	10.0
15	EDIV State STREET(R) SPDR(R) S&P Emerging Markets…	+8.1%	+118.4%	0.54	-40.7%	0.49%	10.0
16	FIDI Fidelity International High Dividend ETF	+6.1%	+66.6%	0.36	-46.3%	—	8.7

EWJV (: +13.5% a year) sits at the top of this table and FIDI (+6.1% a year) at the bottom. The order is arithmetic over past data — it is not a judgement about which fund is better, and past performance does not predict future results.

Which of them fell the furthest?

Fund	Deepest drop	Peak → trough
FIDI	-46.3%	2018-01-26 → 2020-03-16
FYLD	-44.6%	2018-01-26 → 2020-03-23
EFV	-43.2%	2018-01-26 → 2020-03-23
IDV	-42.5%	2020-02-19 → 2020-03-23
IVLU	-41.9%	2018-01-26 → 2020-03-23

The deepest fall in this group was FIDI, down -46.3% from 2018-01-26 to 2020-03-16. It sits at position 16 in the return table — a reminder that the two questions "what did it return" and "how bad did it get" have different answers.

What do these funds cost?

Expense ratios in this group run from 0.15% to 0.58% a year (median 0.49%). Fees are already deducted from every return above — a fund does not have to be expensive to be interesting, and a cheap one is not automatically better.

How to read this table

Return a year — annualised (CAGR) return over the window; Total return is the cumulative figure.
Sharpe — return per unit of volatility, with the risk-free rate taken as zero.
Worst drop — the deepest peak-to-trough fall in the window, with the dates it happened.
Years — how much history that fund actually has; funds with shorter histories use what exists.
Method and definitions: guides. Interactive version: the ranking tool.

What this page is not

It is not investment advice, not a suggestion of what to buy, and not a forecast. A fund appears here because it is in our pool, and the ordering is arithmetic. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

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