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By The BCM Investment Team Much will be written about the challenges, difficulties, pain and suffering endured by humanity in 2020. We would like to focus on some of the good that came out of last year’s strife: Our Democracy, while far from perfect, works. While many did not see their preferred candidates win, as [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research, WisdomTree To kickstart our Behind the Markets podcast in 2021, we had the pleasure of chatting with John Davi of Astoria Portfolio Advisors about the 10 themes he’s incorporating into his model portfolios for 2021. Notable themes we discussed include: Commodity-Focused Equities Davi likes natural resource-related stocks such as [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Mark Hackett Interest rates were on the rise last week with the 10-year Treasury yield topping 1.0% for the first time since last March, closing at 1.13% on Friday, January 8. One week into 2021, the benchmark bond yield is up 0.21% since the start of the year. This jump poses a frustrating challenge [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Mark Prentice, CFA, Research Analyst; Peter O’Donoghue, CFA, Portfolio Manager The Fundamental Value Equity team at State Street Global Advisors has a long history of ESG investing. The team has run a number of exclusion-based mandates since the 1980s, while our long-standing fundamental investment approach and governance activities involved implicit consideration of ESG issues [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Joe Foster, Portfolio Manager, Gold Strategy, VanEck Gold Support Holds In December The Thanksgiving holiday attempt by short speculators to drive gold prices below the technically important $1,800 per ounce level failed, as gold rebounded to $1,815/oz on December 1 and gained $121.41 (6.8%) to end the month at $1,898.36/oz. Gold stocks also had strong [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

This article is relevant to financial professionals who are considering offering Model Portfolios to their clients. If you are an individual investor interested in WisdomTree ETF Model Portfolios, please inquire with your financial professional. Not all financial professionals have direct access to these Model Portfolios. WisdomTree’s Model Portfolio Investment Committee produces quarterly commentary on their [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

What a way to kick off the new year. If you happened to watch the storming of the Capitol unfold live on TV on Wednesday of last week, you might have mistaken it for a movie adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel. Despite the turmoil, stocks have incredibly continued to trade up. On Friday, the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

By Robert Ross Investors might have thought they’d seen it all in 2020. But the stock market action was merely a preview of what’s to come in 2021. Just to take a quick look back, the market gave everyone a scare in 2020 when it bottomed in March. But then the S&P 500 surged 67% [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

What was the most important financial event of 2020? Most folks would tell you it was the coronavirus pandemic and the economic devastation caused by government lockdowns. But that’s wrong. For investors, the most life-changing thing that happened last year has to do with computer chips. In 2020, for the first time ever, the value of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Gold and silver futures prices fell on Friday, prompted partly by a strengthening U.S. dollar index and dipping crude oil prices. While gold fell 1.35% to roughly $1825 per ounce, silver was hit especially hard, dropping over $1 an ounce to breach $25, hitting a low of $24.61 an ounce. The move dragged silver ETFs lower [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Companies are reconfiguring their businesses to obviate any fallout from potential liabilities through greater adherence toward environmental, social, and governance principles. As they prep, the issue of diversity could be a major sticking point. Investment demand has shown that the ESG theme is quickly gaining traction. According to investment bank Lazard, there are now more [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

President-elect Joe Biden has finally announced details of his $1.9-trillion stimulus plan, which has been named the American Rescue Plan. The new relief package will extend the additional federal unemployment payment through September and will raise it to $400 per week. The new

With the Biden Administration aiming for another aggressive stimulus package to lift the economy, investors could be looking at copper and metal-related exchange traded funds to capture the potential demand for raw materials. Over the past three months, the United States Copper Index Fund (NYSEARCA: CPER) is up 20.5% and iPath Series B Bloomberg Copper [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

A targeted dry bulk shipping exchange traded fund has rallied in the new year, breaking from traditionally weak seasonal trends. Among the best performing non-leveraged ETFs of Friday, the Breakwave Dry Bulk Shipping ETF (NYSEArca: BDRY) jumped 6.9%. BDRY has already surged 36.0% so far in 2021. BDRY tries to provide exposure to the daily [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds dipped Friday after President-elect Joe Biden revealed a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, triggering fears of a tax hike to pay for the aid package. On Friday, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) fell 0.2%, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) was down 0.3%, and iShares Core S&P [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted the investing world, with market participants showing greater interest in conscious investing, spurring demand for environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) funds. According to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment’s 2

The S&P 500 Energy index has rallied 45% in the past few months. Five of the best-performing ETFs from Invesco have been in the energy sector. Invesco S&P SmallCap Energy ETF (PSCE): PSCE seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P SmallCap 600® Capped Energy Index. The fund generally will [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

In December, Pacer ETFs announced their new Structured Outcome Strategies (SOS) fund family: The Pacer Swan SOS ETF Series. With this hedged equity suite, there will be a deeper roster of risk-managed ETF offerings for issuers. Pacer has partnered with Swan Global Management, LLC, which will act as the sub-advisor for the fund family to help [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

Stocks and index ETFs are dropping on Friday following President-elect Joe Biden’s announcement of details relating to a nearly $2 trillion stimulus plan, as well as the poor retail sales data. Although they are attempting to rebound in the late morning session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 lost 0.8% Friday, while the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.

The demand woes led by the coronavirus outbreak and the oil market meltdown hurt the commodity market initially in 2020. However, broad commodities bounced back strongly recently on massive liquidity injections by central banks across the globe and optimism over the vaccines.