By Brandon Rakszawski, Director of Product Management The strength of Morningstar’s moat indexes lies in its forward-looking approach to selecting quality companies, as shown by its history of outperforming the S&P 500 over long holding periods. August was a volatile month for U.S. equity markets. The S&P 500 Index finished the month in negative territory [...]
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Whether your clients are looking to invest, transact, or simply learn, it’s crucial they have a grasp of the basics—brought to you here using language and concepts they will quickly understand. Please note that VanEck has exposure to Bitcoin. From the gold standard to paper money and now to digital assets, the means by which we [...]
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This episode covers the current environment for solar energy, including recent headwinds and legislation, as well as what the future of the industry looks like. As sweltering temperatures strain the U.S. power grid, how does this help the outlook for solar energy? Robert Lane, CFO of the residential solar energy company Sunnova, joins this episode. [...]
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The Canadian ETF marketplace is one of innovation and growing investor interest. ETFs now comprise 15% of all publicly available investment assets in Canada according to ETF Market. To get a high-level look at the Canadian ETF market, we’ll review the top ETFs this year through three different lenses, including returns and flows. Top 3 [...]
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Check out our August fixed income market update, brought to you by Elya Schwartzman, JoAnne Bianco, and the BondBloxx Investment Management team. View Report August Overview Fixed income markets took a breather in August, as interest rates rose at the long end of the yield curve (Chart 3), and spreads were modestly wider across investment grade, high yield, and [...]
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With only four trading days during the week, ETF launches were few and far between. Only four new funds launched this week. The new rollouts included ETFs from Madison, F/m Investments, and KraneShares. An active managed futures strategy also debuted during the week. The actively managed Return Stacked U.S. Stocks & Managed Futures ETF (RSST) [...]
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In trading on Friday, shares of the FNDC ETF (Symbol: FNDC) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $32.97, changing hands as low as $32.94 per share. FNDC shares are currently trading down about 0.3% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of FNDC sh
The 2020’s may well go down as the decade that laid to rest the traditional 60/40 portfolio and underscored the need for non-correlated allocations to stocks and bonds. Given prolonged volatility and market uncertainty, portfolio diversification plays an increasingly integral role in performance in the years to come. “On the macro front, it’s safe to [...]
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Many investors and advisors have likely already thought long and hard about their big tech allocations. Earlier this year, they may have asked themselves whether they had too small of an allocation. Now, however, the tide has turned significantly, and many are concerned about being overweight big tech. Just ten or so firms have contributed [...]
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Greetings, VettaFi Voices! In recent months, we’ve talked about a lot of different issues, from the micro to the macro, but let’s go REALLY big picture this week. With the Russia-Ukraine war still raging, China faltering, global warming wreaking havoc, geopolitical tensions rising in general and the Doomsday Clock set at the closest to total [...]
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The second best-performing S&P 500 factor in August, quality ETFs are currently having a moment. The popular Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF (SPHQ) has seen strong inflows recently, accreting $319 million in net flows in one month. Year to date, the $6 billion fund has hauled in $1.5 billion year to date, While SPHQ is [...]
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ESG has dominated advisors’ minds when it comes to looking at the current generation of young prospective clients. It remains a popular investment approach for millennial and Gen Z clients per surveys. ESG isn’t the only theme that could be important for Gen Z clients particularly, however. According to recent survey data, Gen Z’s approach [...]
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Harbor Capital Advisors and C WorldWide Asset Management launched the Harbor International Compounders ETF (OSEA) last year. OSEA seeks to provide compelling returns. The active ETF focuses on companies that are believed to be able to sustain consistent growth levels well into the future. In the second part of a two-part interview with VettaFi, C WorldWide [...]
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The First Trust Nasdaq Food & Beverage ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 731,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 226,000. Shares of FTXG were off about 0.3% on the day.
Components of that ETF with the highe
In trading on Friday, the iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.6% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Delek US Holdings, up about 6.1% and shares of PBF Energy, up about
Evan Harp sat down with Stringer Asset Management’s Gary Stringer. They discussed fixed income, behavioral finance, and what 2024 and beyond could hold for investors. Stringer’s Fixed Income Strategy Evan Harp: Fixed income has been a big topic in 2023. How has your firm been incorporating fixed income ETFs into your strategy? Gary Stringer: We [...]
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Comparing units outstanding versus one week ago at the coverage universe of ETFs at ETF Channel, the biggest inflow was seen in the Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF, which added 8,531,510 units, or a 2.4% increase week over week.
And on a percentage change basis, the E
Looking at units outstanding versus one week prior within the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, the biggest outflow was seen in the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, where 6,300,000 units were destroyed, or a 1.2% decrease week over week. Among the largest underlying co