Amid dividend growth slowdown, investors should make a bet in a basket of dividend stocks via ETFs that carry lower risk and is a diversified play. In fact, the dividend aristocrats could be the most beneficial way.

Dividend growth stocks are public companies that have shown a track record of successive year-over-year increases in their dividend payments to shareholders.

In this interview Eric Ervin explains a strategy with a forward-looking focus on future dividend growth rather than using a purely historical look at historical dividend changes.

January witnessed 13 ETF launches along with the closure of four ETFs and one ETN, putting the new count at 1,853 (1,653 ETFs and 200 ETNs).