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Because of lackluster stock returns, rock-bottom interest rates and aging baby boomers hungry for income, investors are rightfully focusing on stocks with a high and rising dividend record. This is why the timing of Marc Lichtenfeld’s new book Read more…
Eric Dutram: The recent economic slowdown in the developed and emerging nations has forced the domestic U.S. interest rates to plummet near all time lows. Read more…
Neena Mishra: Treasury bond yields are now touching their all-time lows as the fears over a possible Greek exit and concerns over the Spanish banking system continue Read more…
Eric Dutram: The ETF world has been expanding at a torrid pace in recent months as a variety of firms race to bring new funds to market. The product pipeline looks pretty rich as well, as a number of firms have proposed new products Read more…
Michael Johnston: iShares continued to aggressively expand its ETF lineup last week with the addition of two new ETFs focusing on dividend-paying stocks in international markets. The iShares Emerging Markets Dividend Index Fund (NYSEArca:DVYE) will combine two asset classes that have become Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: In today’s market, dividend investing is the best way to achieve a decent income stream without taking on too much risk. On the other hand, this is also true: emerging markets give investors the benefit of the world’s fastest economic growth. Read more…
I just returned from a great Oxford Club summit on emerging markets held in tropical Nicaragua (nice to be back in cold Colorado). One of the speakers was a friend of mine, Doug Clayton, CEO of Leopard Capital, a leading frontier markets Read more…
David Gillie: For those of you in my generation, the thought of Vietnam brings up visuals of military carnage as seen on the nightly news of the 1960′s. This is what Vietnam looks like today. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: As dire as economic conditions appear in Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) due to the debt crisis, the tactics of the European Central Bank in financing rescue packages has actually made them worse. Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Over the last couple of years, investor interest in certain asset classes and general strategies has spiked as a result of the challenges facing global financial markets. With interest rates at record lows and volatility jumping to higher-than-average levels, dividend-focused ETFs have Read more…
Michael Johnston: A quick look at the headlines on any given day is generally enough to explain why investors have been shifting greater percentages of their long-term portfolios towards emerging markets Read more…
The developments of the last several years have highlighted the growing gap between the developed and emerging markets of the world. Advanced economies in North America, Europe, and Asia face mounting debt burdens and the prospect of a prolonged stretch of low economic growth. Read more…
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Today’s market environment has created a hazy outlook for equities as major equities have fallen into an unstable trend for much of 2011. While some remain bullish on the economic recovery, others feel that recent statistics point the other way, and that we are heading for a slowdown. Read more…
EGShares, the only ETF issuer focused exclusively on emerging markets, announced today the introduction of another product offering exposure to equities of developing markets. The new Emerging Markets High Income Low Beta ETF (NYSE:HILO) will seek to replicate the Read more…
Seeking out dividend payers can help investors tap emerging-markets growth while providing a downside risk cushion, according to WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg. Steinberg talks a little bit about the WisdomTree fund, WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Inc (NYSE:DEM), and gives us a little highlight on strategy there and Read more…
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