The Global X Emerging Markets Internet & E-commerce ETF seeks to offer targeted exposure to some of the most tech savvy companies in the world’s fastest-growing markets
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IDV: High Dividend International Equities Offer The Best Of Both Worlds
A Look At The International Dividend Portfolio IDV holds companies from all over the world with banking centers like the United Kingdom and Hong Kong holding high weighting.
The ETF’s sector and country breakdown are shown below: ( iShares – IDV ) Financials hold the highest weighting, particularly because most bank stocks are very cheap today
Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF: In For A Breather
Source: Vanguard Huge pool of securities, well-diversified, reasonably valued, and not top-heavy When you pursue a high-beta space such as small caps, it’s preferable to spread your exposure over a wider horizon, and this ETF facilitates that, giving you access to 2058 stocks, with not a single stock accounting for more than 0.6% of the total holdings.
The benefit of investing in something like a VTWO is that style-wise, it is a blended ETF, where you get exposure to both growth and value stocks, and you’re not faced with the dilemma of attempting to get the timing right with picking one style over the other.
Changebridge Launches Two ESG ETFs, CBLS & CBSE
Closing out the week, on Friday, Changebridge Capital, a Boston-based asset manager specializing in active management powered by quantitative and fundamental analysis, announced the launch of its first two ETFs, CBLS and CBSE , which seek to harness quantitative and fundamental analysis for selecting inefficiently priced securities.
The Changebridge Capital Long/Short Equity ETF ( CBLS ) features a concentrated portfolio of long and short positions, aiming for each position in the portfolio generating risk-adjusted alpha.
Adjusting Your 60/40 Portfolio For A Zero Yield World
And with the much lower long-term risk on high yield bonds, investors can thus achieve equity-like returns for less-than-equity like risk by investing in the space.
Unfortunately, an investor must either accept more risk in their bonds (and by extension their entire portfolio) or see their real returns plummet.
Can Dividend Stock ETFs Close 2020 On the Up?
Investors looking for best of breed payout stocks should prioritize balance sheet strength and quality, boxes checked by the FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund (NYSEArca: QDF) .
“Macro conditions are more favorable for investors looking to add dividend stocks to their portfolio, but it’s important to focus on the strength of individual companies’ balance sheets, concludes a note by Ned Davis Research,” reports Lawrence Strauss for Barron’s .
iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF: Hot Market, Stable Cash Flows
The fund invests in growth and value stocks of companies across diversified market capitalization, as it seeks to track the performance of the Dow Jones
DGRW: Pfizer’s Vaccine News Could Set This ETF Into Motion
The WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth ETF ( DGRW ) focuses on the dividend growth & quality factors and could be uniquely positioned to outperform in a post-vaccine world Positioning For The Re-Opening Rally The news of Pfizer’s potential coronavirus vaccine yielding very encouraging results in the early findings of its clinical trial was more than enough to send investors racing into risk assets betting that a full economic recovery could be on the way.
Instead, DGRW looks at long-term earnings growth expectations as a proxy for a company’s ability to continue paying and growing its dividend over time.
Earning Some Income While Sitting on the Sidelines
According to Jerome Schneider, Head of Short-Term Portfolio Management at PIMCO, active bond ETFs provide a combination of income generation and capital appreciation potential as the fund has the flexibility to trade before a bond holding matures.
PIMCO’s Schneider highlighted that relative to money market funds, ETF investors can not only benefit from higher yields through positions in Agency and high-investment-grade corporate bonds, but also from some capital appreciation achieved by a portfolio management team actively trading bonds before they reach maturity.
Can You Innovate Out of COVID Risk with Multi-Assets?
Uncorrelated assets can be held via ETFs like the actively-managed Invesco Balanced Multi-Asset Allocation ETF ( PSMB ).
With the ability to get in and out of holdings, active funds like PSMB can benefit when the markets go awry and volatility spikes.
Two Alternative ETFs for Copper and Lithium Coverage
LIT seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Global Lithium Index, which is designed to measure broad-based equity market performance of global companies involved in the lithium industry.
This fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Global Copper Miners Total Return Index, which is designed to measure broad-based equity market performance of global companies involved in the copper mining industry.
Election Results Bring Huge Gains for Cannabis ETFs
POTX, the first cannabis fund from Global X follows a benchmark that holds “companies involved in the legal production, growth, and distribution of cannabis and industrial hemp, as well as those involved in providing financial services to the cannabis industry, pharmaceutical applications of cannabis, cannabidiol (i.e., CBD), or other related uses including but not limited to extracts, derivatives or synthetic versions,” according to Global X .
While Canopy only operates in Canada, its standing agreement to acquire U.S. multistate operator, Acreage Holdings, upon a change in federal law gives it economic exposure to Tuesday’s outcome,” notes Morningstar.
Get Quality Factor Exposure in Uncertain Times with “QUAL”r
Overall, QUAL gives investors: Exposure to large- and mid-cap U.S. stocks exhibiting positive fundamentals (high return on equity, stable year-over-year earnings growth and low financial leverage).
QUAL seeks to track the investment results of the MSCI USA Sector Neutral Quality Index composed of U.S. large- and mid-capitalization stocks with quality characteristics as identified through certain fundamental metrics.
Get Your Portfolio in Shape with the “BFIT” ETF
BFIT seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Indxx Global Health & Wellness Thematic Index.
ETF Efficiency : In a single trade, BFIT delivers access to dozens of companies with high exposure to the Health & Wellness theme.