Advisors looking for a strategic solution for exposure to international equities have an array of ideas to consider, but one of the more compelling options is the First Trust Dorsey Wright International Focus 5 ETF (NasdaqGM: IFV). IFV is the international answer to the highly popular First Trust Dorsey Wright Focus 5 ETF (NasdaqGM: FV). [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Stocks continued to struggle on Friday, making inverse ETFs a solid play recently, as investors digested a challenging week of trading that included a spike in coronavirus cases globally, a breakdown in fiscal stimulus talks, and a contentious upcoming presidential election. With new coronavirus cases reaching an all-time high this week in the U.S., according to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Justin Spittler The biggest presidential election of our lifetimes is just around the corner. And if you watch cable news, you may feel like the fate of everything hangs in the balance, from our environment to our economy to our health. But as I’ll show you today, the election has almost zero impact on my stock picking [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Natalia Gurushina, Chief Economist, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy, VanEck China’s 5th Plenum reinforced the message of self-reliance and higher quality of growth. Brazil kept its policy rate at the historic low – the fiscal outlook remains a main risk going forward. The 5th Plenum of China’s Communist Party reinforced the message of self-reliance (especially technological self-sufficiency) and higher [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Salvatore J. Bruno, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director, IndexIQ Hard as it may be to believe, the election season won’t last forever. No matter who wins the world will go on. But as we close in on Election Day, it’s worth a quick look back at how markets have typically performed during these periods. One [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Eric Legunn, CFA, DWS Previously, I wrote a blog to help investors better understand the quality factor. As shown below, year-to-date the Russell 1000 Quality Factor Total Return Index has outperformed not only the Russell 1000 Total Return Index, but also the Russell 1000 Value, Size, Volatility and Momentum Factor Total Return Indexes. This is [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Seema Shah, Chief Strategist, Principal Global Investors This year, the hits have come hard and fast, with the global pandemic wreaking economic devastation and seemingly changing life as we know it. Fear and anxiety have become a permanent companion to many of us as we try to navigate our daily lives under the threat of [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
All eyes are on the election, what the result will be and what will happen in its aftermath. According to analysis from our partners at Ned Davis Research, since 1952, the incumbent party has not won when there was either a 20% decline in the market or a recession in the election year—both of which [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Ryan Krystopowicz, CFA, WisdomTree Model portfolios have created quite a buzz. As the fastest-growing component of the intermediary-sold product landscape, model assets are expected to exceed $5 trillion by 2023 (double that of 2018 AUM).[1] Asset managers have noticed. Morningstar reports that more than 600 third-party models were activated on their platform over the last [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Stephen McBride The US housing market is booming. Last month, the number of Americans buying new houses spiked to a 14-year high. Home prices are growing at their fastest pace since 1991. And US mortgage lenders just recorded their biggest quarter in two decades. Lenders handed out a staggering $1.1 trillion in home loans [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Funds A week after reporting earnings, Delta Air Lines jumped more than 7 percent last Thursday after the carrier announced it would continue to block the middle seat until at least January of next year. This increase helped its share price climb above the 200-day moving average for the first [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
“Governing a nation so evenly divided in its partisan preferences will be an enormous challenge,” the dean of the Washington press corps noted.[1] He was not commenting on the disputes of the Trump era, but instead reacting to the apparent divide into “red states” and “blue states” in 2000. Ever since, the prospect of another disputed [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Stephen McBride We’re just days away from one of the most anticipated elections in history. And I’m afraid millions of investors are going to waste time and money trying to “guess” who’ll win and how it will impact markets. The truth is, smart investors won’t waste a second worrying about which party will win. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
While attempting to capitalize in the most beneficial ways, there are ideals some companies would prefer to hold onto. On Thursday, Ridgeline Research announced the launch of the American Conservative Values ETF (NYSE: ACVF). The fund will focus on large capitalization of U.S. equities. ACVF is the first-ever ETF that will attempt to align investments [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
BlackRock’ the world’s largest asset manager, is pushing for the industry to overhaul environmental, social and governance investments and standardize a globally recognized framework to establish criteria for sustainable investing. As more money managers come out with new ESG investment strategies to meet growing demand, a hodgepodge of varying private reporting frameworks and standards on [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.