On Tuesday, the Biden administration implemented new cybersecurity requirements for U.S. pipeline operators, according to the Wall Street Journal . The measures are to help protect against increasing incidents of ransomware and disruptive hacking, such as with the Colonial Pipeline attack that shut the major fuel supplier down for a week in May.
Often overshadowed by Bitcoin in the news, Ethereum offers unique opportunities for investors and is on track for a bullish 2021, said VanEck in a recent webinar . Ethereum Is Rapidly Growing While Ethereum often trends in the same direction as Bitcoin, it is more than just a cryptocurrency token.
On Wednesday, ZEGA Financial, a registered investment adviser and investment manager known for helping investors successfully navigate volatile and uncertain markets through innovative hedging strategies, announced the launch of the ZEGA Buy and Hedge ETF ( ZHDG ). The ETF is designed to provide broad U.S. equity large cap market exposure while seeking to limit downside risk in the event of a material market correction.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts and scoring are making their way into the world of fixed income ETFs, but investors have an established option in the VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSEArca: GRNB) . GRNB, the original ETF dedicated to green bonds, offers investors broad-based exposure to a small, but fast-growing corner of the bond market.
Helped by a rebound in growth stocks, the ALPS Clean Energy ETF ( ACES ) jumped 3.72% last week. Yet there’s more to the ACES story. Soaring temperatures in the western part of the U.S., including in some places not known for exceptionally hot summer conditions, could put energy storage and solar equities back in focus.
Share repurchase programs were among the investment victims of the coronavirus pandemic as companies looked for efficient avenues to rapidly conserve cash. As has been widely noted, neither the COVID-19 bear market nor subsequent recession were as bad or as lengthy as were expected.
Did you know that there are 10 times more private companies than publicly traded companies? Or that the value of private U.S. companies has increased nearly 700% over the past 20 years, while the value of public companies has only increased 250%?
Europe’s first and only pure-play semiconductor ETF has amassed $500m in assets in a little over six months. VanEck’s UCITS semiconductor ETF has raced to $500m in assets. (File Image) Launched by VanEck in December 2020, the VanEck Vectors Semiconductor UCITS ETF has passed the half-billion-dollar milestone chiefly thanks to bumper investor inflows.
With interest rates still low, an assortment of traditional income-generating assets just aren’t getting the job done for many income investors. That puts alternative assets in the spotlight, including business development companies (BDCs).
The PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index (SOX) – the most widely observed chip equity benchmark – has a new home among U.S.-listed exchange traded funds. The Invesco Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBBQ) debuts today, providing access to the 30 components in the PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index that serve as the backbones of an array of disruptive technologies.
The cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline is re-emphasizing the need for greater cybersecurity, which should prop up assets like the Global X Cybersecurity ETF ( BUG ).
Inflation fears are constantly swirling in the capital markets, putting upward pressure on the U.S. dollar on the prospect of higher rates, which may help bolster the case for the Xtrackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF (DBEF) . When the dollar rises, DBEF softens the blow for affected currencies in its underlying index, which is mainly comprised of developed countries.
Strong performances from top cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are spilling over into companies that focus on digital assets, which should help funds like the VanEck Vectors Digital Transformation ETF ( DAPP ).
With stocks and index ETFs losing more than 3% over the last couple of days, volatility, as measured by the VIX, has been spiking. After a period of enduring complacency, the CBOE Volatility Index, a measure of fear in the markets based on option prices on the S&P 500, surged as high as 23.73 this week, to levels not seen since March.
