German Consumer Retailing Defensive Blue Chips

Erste Group Bank

Market Cap: €31.7b

Provides a range of banking and other financial services to retail, corporate, and public sector customers.

Great-West Lifeco

Market Cap: CA$50.7b

Engages in the life and health insurance, retirement savings, wealth and asset management, and reinsurance businesses in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

China Unicom (Hong Kong)

Market Cap: HK$286.7b

An investment holding company, provides telecommunications and related value-added services in the People’s Republic of China.

Humana

Market Cap: US$36.5b

Provides medical and specialty insurance products in the United States.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero)

Market Cap: Rp596.3t

Provides various banking products and services in Indonesia and internationally.

Telstra Group

Market Cap: AU$55.8b

Provides telecommunications and information services in Australia and internationally.

Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize

Market Cap: €30.8b

Operates retail food stores and e-commerce in the Netherlands, the United States, and internationally.

MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings

Market Cap: JP¥5.3t

An insurance holding company, engages in the provision of insurance and financial services worldwide.

Intact Financial

Market Cap: CA$49.0b

Through its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance products to individuals and businesses in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally.

Cardinal Health

Market Cap: US$35.5b

Operates as a healthcare services and products company in the United States and internationally.

Consolidated Edison

Market Cap: US$35.4b

Through its subsidiaries, engages in the regulated electric, gas, and steam delivery businesses in the United States.

Ambev

Market Cap: R$191.8b

Through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of beer, draft beer, carbonated soft drinks, malt and food, other alcoholic beverages, and non-alcoholic and non-carbonated products in Brazil, Central America and Caribbean, Latin America South, and Canada.

Microchip Technology

Market Cap: US$35.1b

Develops, manufactures, and sells smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Talanx

Market Cap: €30.0b

Provides insurance and reinsurance products and services worldwide.

Hannover Rück

Market Cap: €29.8b

Provides reinsurance products and services in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Europe, the United States, Asia, Australia, Africa, and internationally.

Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli

Market Cap: CHF 27.9b

Engages in the manufacture and sale of chocolate products worldwide.

Avenue Supermarts

Market Cap: ₹3.0t

Engages in the business of organized retail and operating supermarkets under the D-Mart brand name in India.

Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine FactoryLtd

Market Cap: CN¥244.2b

Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory Co.,Ltd.

Chunghwa Telecom

Market Cap: NT$1.0t

Operates as an integrated telecommunications service provider in Taiwan and internationally.

Arch Capital Group

Market Cap: US$34.0b

Provides insurance, reinsurance, and mortgage insurance products in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia.

Danske Bank

Market Cap: DKK 217.9b

Provides various banking products and services to corporate, institutional, and international clients.

Prudential

Market Cap: UK£25.4b

Through its subsidiaries, provides life and health insurance, and asset management solutions to individuals in Asia and Africa.

GE HealthCare Technologies

Market Cap: US$33.7b

Engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of products, services, and complementary digital solutions used in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients in the United States, Canada, and internationally.

CEZ a. s

Market Cap: Kč702.1b

Engages in the generation, distribution, trade, and sale of electricity and heat in Western, Central, and Southeastern Europe.

Kraft Heinz

Market Cap: US$33.1b

Manufactures and markets food and beverage products in North America and internationally.

Foshan Haitian Flavouring and Food

Market Cap: CN¥236.5b

Foshan Haitian Flavouring and Food Company Ltd.

Imperial Brands

Market Cap: UK£24.7b

Manufactures, imports, markets, and sells tobacco and tobacco-related products in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Asia, Australasia, and internationally.

Sun Life Financial

Market Cap: CA$45.1b

A financial services company, provides asset management, wealth, insurance and health solutions to individual and institutional customers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Bermuda.

Ping An Bank

Market Cap: CN¥232.5b

Provides commercial banking products and services for individual and corporate customers, government agencies, institutions, and other small businesses in China and internationally.

Invest bank P.S.C

Market Cap: د.إ118.4b

A commercial bank, provides a range of financial products and services to corporate and retail customers in the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.

Seven & i Holdings

Market Cap: JP¥4.8t

Operates convenience stores, superstores, and department stores in Japan, North America, and internationally.

Brown & Brown

Market Cap: US$32.0b

Brown & Brown, Inc. markets and sells insurance products and services in the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and internationally.

Swedbank

Market Cap: SEK 302.1b

Provides various banking products and services to private and corporate customers in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the United States, Finland, Denmark, Luxembourg, and China.

Willis Towers Watson

Market Cap: US$31.9b

Operates as an advisory, broking, and solutions company worldwide.

Endesa

Market Cap: €27.2b

Engages in the generation, distribution, and sale of electricity in Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Singapore, Italy, Morocco, and internationally.

M&T Bank

Market Cap: US$31.5b

Operates as a bank holding company for Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association that provides retail and commercial banking products and services in the United States.