The ALPS Clean Energy ETF (ACES) is among the renewable energy exchange traded funds delivering stellar returns this year and while some data suggest this group of ETFs is levered to positive polling numbers for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, ACES doesn’t need a specific electoral outcome to be a long-term winner. After all, the ALPS fund is performing [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
3D printing was one of the original disruptive technologies. Then, investors largely forget about it. They shouldn’t have because the 3D Printing ETF (CBOE: PRNT) is quietly up almost 19% this year. Passively managed PRNT offers leverage to that department as its benchmark “is composed of equity securities and depositary receipts of exchange-listed companies from [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Investors looking to tap into theme of entrepreneurship can approach that in various forms, but one of the best strategies to consider is the the Entrepreneur 30 Fund (NYSEArca: ENTR). The Entrepreneur 30 Fund tries to reflect the performance of the Entrepreneur 30 Index, which is comprised of 30 U.S. companies with the highest market [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The healthcare sector is usually viewed as defensive, but that doesn’t diminish the possibility that the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEArca: XLV) will deliver some upbeat earnings news when reports from the sector trickle in over the coming weeks. The largest healthcare ETF by assets, XLV seeks investment results that correspond generally to [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Some income-generating asset classes can be fertile ground for active managers, including preferred stocks. Enter the Principal Spectrum Preferred Securities Active ETF (CBOE: PREF). Preferred stocks are a type of hybrid security that shows bond- and equity-like characteristics. The shares are issued by financial institutions, utilities, and telecom companies, among others. Within the securities hierarchy, [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
With Election Day right around the corner, fixed income investors have a variety of outcomes to consider. That includes potential impacts for municipal bonds. Investors can improve outcomes and get defensive with the VanEck Vectors Municipal Allocation ETF (Cboe: MAAX). MAAX, which launched last year, is based off a proprietary model that incorporates momentum, along [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Dividends still matter. So does the quality backing those payouts. Both traits can be found in the FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund (NYSEArca: QDEF). QDEF’s underlying index is designed to reflect the performance of a selection of companies that, in aggregate, possess greater financial strength and stability characteristics relative to the Northern Trust 1250 Index, a [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Broadly speaking, emerging markets equities are disappointing investors yet again this year, but with the proper strategies, advisors can offer investors the potential for better outcomes in developing economies. WisdomTree’s Emerging Markets Multi-Factor Model Portfolio is one such idea. “This model portfolio is designed for investors with a long-term horizon looking for exposure to a [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
With U.S. interest rates at historic lows, the Invesco DB US Dollar Index Bearish Fund (UDN) finds itself in the currency exchange traded fund spotlight. UDN seeks to track the changes, whether positive or negative, in the level of the Deutsche Bank Short US Dollar Index Futures Index. The index reflects the changes in market [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
This year has had no shortage of twists and turns and the third quarter of 2020 has been no different. The end of Q3 provides an opportunity to look back at the path of the Astor Economic Index® (“AEI”) and our flagship Dynamic Allocation (“ADA”) strategy over the course of the past three months in lieu [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
As investors and advisors look to hone in on innovation, timely given Tesla’s strong earnings (TSLA), there are ways to look at ETFs through this lens. ETF Trends CIO and Director of Research, Dave Nadig, spoke with Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita on “The ETF Report,” on measuring said innovation’s success and seeing it as an asset [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
As more look to the long-term growth potential of renewables and the clean energy sector, investors can look to the Ardour Global Alternative Energy Extra-Liquid Index (AGIXL) and the exchange traded fund, VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy ETF (SMOG), that tracks the benchmark. The Ardour Global Alternative Energy Indexes were the first global alternative energy [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Bank stocks and sector-related exchange traded funds are strengthening as more come around to the idea that a Joe Biden presidency may not be as bad as previously thought. Among the better performing non-leveraged ETFs of Thursday, the SPDR S&P Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE) increased 4.2% and SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (NYSEArca: KRE) gained [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds regained lost ground and turned higher Thursday as investors looked to more fiscal stimulus in support an economy weakened by the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) rose 0.1%, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) was up 0.7% and iShares Core S&P [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
With the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield hovering below 1% and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell saying at the June Federal Open Market Committee meeting that the Fed is “not even thinking about thinking about raising rates,” advisors will have to reconsider how they view fixed-income’s role in a portfolio. Although interest rates have trended lower [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.