Raub Brock Dividend Growth ETF is an actively managed exchange-traded fund that seeks long-term capital appreciation, with current income as a secondary objective, by investing primarily in equity securities of large-capitalization companies with high quality characteristics and sustainable dividend growth potential. The fund is advised by Empowered Funds, LLC dba EA Advisers and sub-advised by Raub Brock Capital Management, LP, an independent investment management firm founded in 1991 and headquartered in Larkspur, California.
The fund invests at least 80% of net assets, plus borrowings for investment purposes, in dividend-paying equities, including common stock and depositary receipts such as ADRs; it uses quantitative screening and fundamental bottom-up research to identify companies with at least five consecutive years of dividend increases, strong competitive positions, durable business models, attractive growth characteristics and reasonable valuations. The strategy generally maintains a concentrated, non-diversified portfolio across sectors and industries, and may hold foreign issuers through ADRs.
Raub Brock Capital Management’s dividend growth strategy is designed to capture returns from dividend-growing stocks while seeking capital preservation and growing income over the long term; the same approach is also offered through separately managed accounts and model-based UMA solutions. The company’s core investment focus centers on large-cap dividend growth equities and related portfolio management services.
The ETF is a new launch, with a Form N-1A registration statement filed in late February 2026 and public references to a September 2026 inception date; it is listed on Nasdaq under ticker HQDG and began trading with an initial launch structure that may include in-kind contributions at inception. Recent major changes include the fund’s organization and launch, along with its addition to Raub Brock’s product lineup as an actively managed ETF version of the firm’s long-running dividend growth strategy.