S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats is designed to measure the performance of 50 highest dividend yielding constituents that have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. This index is a member of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats index series.

Index constituents exhibit the following characteristics:

• Underlying Indices – S&P Composite 1500
• Weighting – Equally weighted; Constituents re-weighted quarterly
• Reconstitution – Reviewed annually in December

Members may be deleted during the December rebalance if calendar-year dividends did not increase from the previous year, or intra-year if the stock is removed from the underlying S&P Composite 1500.

Index Governance and Policy
This index is maintained by the S&P Index Committee, whose members include Standard & Poor's economists and index analysts. It follows a set of published guidelines and policies that provide the transparent methodologies used to maintain the index.

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