Nasdaq ETFs

With the global economy getting back on its feet, supply chains have been dominating headlines. What’s lost in the noise is how the shipping and air freight industries will potentially benefit from the enormous, synchronized rebound in global trade, all while fiscal stimulus appears to be fueling consumption. In the upcoming webcast, Can Investors Capitalize [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

CFA and Market Strategist Paul Wong sees the gold correction nearing its end, according to the latest from Sprott Insights. Gold bullion ended November at $1,775, $8.86 under its October finish. Overall, the yellow metal is down 6.52% year-to-date. Gold equities nudged up 0.79% but are still down 10.65% on the year. Silver, meanwhile, is [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

As we dive into what people are missing — and what risks they might be accidentally taking — in traditional approaches, investors can consider an active exchange traded fund municipal bond strategy that looks across the entire market opportunity set instead of being tied to a benchmark’s methodology. In the recent webcast, Hidden Income Your Munis Are [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The transition to net-zero carbon emissions for economies isn’t one that is going to happen in a bubble, but it will instead be a rapidly accelerating event that will send shocks throughout systems on all levels. Reasons for the acceleration include the recent COP26 summit, the secondary effects of decarbonization, and the positive feedback loops [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

With inflation, volatility, and uncertainty abounding, income is very much on most investors’ minds. To truly ready your portfolio for the storms ahead, you need quality. Fortunately, there is a pair of ETFs that deal in quality income: the SmartETFs Dividend Builder ETF (DIVS) and the SmartETFs Asia Pacific Dividend Builder (ADIV). Quality is a [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

China is working to limit emissions and reach climate change goals within its borders, along with the rest of the global community. However, China has also taken a proactive approach to helping developing countries make the renewable energy transition as well, particularly within Africa, reports the Global Times. In central South Africa, wind turbines work [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The inflation that the U.S. is currently experiencing is historic in two major ways: it is both the highest it has been in 30 years, and it is a combination of inflationary pressures from supply and demand that doesn’t adhere to old models, reports the Wall Street Journal. Inflation is typically driven up by supply [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Increasingly, research shows that transparent companies can be effective impact investments. Transparent companies, by opening their books and holding themselves accountable to investors, ultimately engage in fewer business controversies and environmental violations that significantly impact portfolio returns. In the upcoming webcast, Invest with Impact: The Importance of Transparency in a Portfolio, Thomas Hartmann-Boyce, client portfolio [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

SUMMARY Following Wall Street’s version of a Black Friday sale, we will let price and our models/indicators tell us when/where this decline ends, while identifying support and watching the Volatility Index. WALL STREET’S BLACK FRIDAY SALE Last Monday’s Tech Talk report highlighted the domestic equity market’s weak/weakening short-term condition and consequently placed a great deal [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Rod Smyth, Chairman of the Board of Directors SUMMARY The market’s rise has been justified by strong fundamentals, in our view. We expect continued growth in earnings and remain bullish on stocks. We believe investors should prepare themselves for the inevitable corrections that will come. If Delta Couldn’t Stop the Stock Market’s Remarkable Performance, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF (SPLV) recently hit a 52-week high as the Omicron variant caused some concerns in the market heading towards the end of 2021. Not only is the variant causing investors to seek safety amid the volatile movements, but inflation is also lurking in the background. A hawkish Federal Reserve could foresee [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Omicron variant injected a fresh dose of volatility into the markets, and more is expected in 2022, making low-volatility exchange traded funds (ETFs) a choice worth considering. InspereX, a company that builds tech platforms for fixed income investments (among other services), notes in a ThinkAdvisor article that 54% of financial advisors surveyed believe that [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Inflation is or will weigh on a variety of assets and portfolio structures. Advisors shouldn’t bet on 60/40 making it through a period of extended inflation unscathed. That’s particularly true with the Federal Reserve potentially considering multiple interest rate hikes in 2022 to cool rising consumer prices. Higher rates could be damaging to the 40% [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

BNY Mellon Investment Management has announced in a press release the launch of its newest fund, the BNY Mellon Concentrated International ETF (BKCI). The fund is sub-advised by Walter Scott & Partners Limited, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon and a specialist in global equity. The fund is actively managed and fully transparent and offers high [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

On Wednesday, PGIM Investments launched two new bond funds — the PGIM Total Return Bond ETF (PTRB) and the PGIM ESG High Yield Fund — expanding access to its flagship core-plus bond strategy and providing a high-yield option for fixed income investors committed to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing principles. PGIM is the $1.5 [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Solomon G. Teller, CFA, Chief Investment Strategist, Green Harvest Asset Management Volatility returned in November. While the ups and downs can be unnerving, they are an unavoidable part of long-term investing. On the bright side, volatility tends to increase opportunities for tax loss harvesting (TLH). Below are TLH highlights for November with accompanying chart and [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates next year. At this point, that’s old news. What investors are now pondering is how many times the central bank will boost borrowing costs. Some market observers are wagering that there could be as many as three rate hikes, each in increments of 25 basis [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Biotechnology equities are lagging the healthcare sector and the broader market this year, but with new variants of the coronavirus expected to continue popping up in 2022, it’s impossible to ignore biotech assets as a potential rebound idea. That includes the VanEck Vectors Biotech ETF (BBH), which, to its credit, is trading higher this year. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

While midstream performance is somewhat correlated to the price fluctuations of oil, it continues to remain fairly insulated from the sharpest dips, instead relying on underlying fundamentals that help it chart its own course. Midstream has been impacted by recent oil price volatility, but it is protected from the sharper drawdowns that oil experiences. Midstream [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

This is the time of year when many investors consider the consumer discretionary sector and retail stocks and exchange traded funds. That makes the new Goldman Sachs Future Consumer Equity ETF (GBUY) an idea worth talking about. Importantly, there’s more to the GBUY story than simple holiday shopping trends. Significant changes in how consumers shop [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.