The FTSE 250 is a superb place for people to go looking for each progress and dividend shares. However with actually a whole lot of firms to select from, the index generally is a powerful place for brand new traders to navigate.

With this in thoughts, right here’s a number of three prime shares to think about when beginning off.

Diversification is a vital characteristic of any portfolio. So these FTSE 250 shares span a number of industries and supply publicity to a number of areas, offering funding alternatives whereas additionally spreading out danger.

As nicely, this portfolio gives a stability of progress, worth, and passive earnings. The primary two phenomena can ship sturdy capital features over time, whereas the ultimate one can present a secure stream of dividends.

Progress

The Allianz Know-how Belief (LSE:ATT) gives traders with further diversification straight off the bat. Like all funding belief, it invests in a basket of different belongings, on this case tech-focused companies (as its identify implies).

In complete, it has positions in 47 firms, of which probably the most dominant holdings are US expertise beasts like Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta. This provides traders publicity to market-leaders with sturdy information of innovation and appreciable money assets to maintain dominating.

Allianz Know-how Belief has appreciable progress potential because of fast-growing phenomena like synthetic intelligence (AI), robotics and cloud computing. However bear in mind that its efficiency might be particularly risky throughout financial downturns.

Worth

Business broadcaster ITV (LSE:ITV) presents strong worth based mostly on each predicted earnings and anticipated dividends.

For 2025, its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is 8.4 instances, nicely beneath the FTSE 250 common of 12.9 instances. In the meantime, its corresponding dividend yield of 6.3% blows the index common of three.6% to smithereens.

Okay, some low valuations usually mirror an organization’s excessive danger profile and/or poor progress prospects. Within the case of ITV, it faces extreme aggressive pressures, and particularly from streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon‘s Prime.

However I believe these risks are greater than baked into the broadcaster’s share price. The truth is, I’m inspired by the hovering reputation of its personal ITVX streaming platform. Its ITV Studios manufacturing arm additionally has appreciable earnings alternatives as demand for content material heats up.

Dividends

Among the best classes of shares to think about for dependable passive earnings are actual property funding trusts (REITs). In trade for tax perks, these trusts are obligated to pay no less than 90% of annual rental earnings out to shareholders.

Please word that tax remedy will depend on the person circumstances of every consumer and could also be topic to alter in future. The content material on this article is offered for info functions solely. It’s not meant to be, neither does it represent, any type of tax recommendation.

This doesn’t assure a market-beating dividend earnings for traders, although. If earnings fall — as an example, on slumping occupancy ranges or hire assortment points — dividends may undergo badly.

However I consider Goal Healthcare (LSE:THRL) carries far lesser danger to traders. Its concentrate on the defensive residential care dwelling sector means rental earnings stays extremely secure throughout the financial cycle. What’s extra, its tenants are locked down on long-term contracts (the weighted common unexpired lease time period right here was 26.1 years as of December).

The ahead dividend yield right here stands right now at a tasty 6.2%.