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Matthew Tucker: A few weeks ago, my colleague Russ blogged about the preference skittish investors are showing for cash. Given the volatile market conditions and uncertain political environment, it’s understandable that investors are finding comfort in cash. Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: The S&P 500 index (NYSEARCA: SPY) has for now held at the 150-200 day moving averages, and has reversed downward in early trading. These moving averages are themselves moving downward, reflecting the downtrend in stock prices that has been in place for over half a year. In combination Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Reiterate Long-Term Overweight of Corporate and Municipal Debt Over Treasuries Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Dividend investing is one of the oldest and most popular strategies amongst retail and institutional equity investors on Wall Street. Legends like Warren Buffet and Benjamin Graham are well known advocates of this value investing approach, and their success in the financial markets speaks Read more…
David Fry: In an era of low interest rates and perhaps a good deal of distrust of equity markets investing for income has become quite a challenge. There are many ETF sectors to choose from where yield is a prime consideration. Read more…
Kevin Feldman: Last week a colleague asked me if, given all the focus on investing for income this year, the “i” in iShares might come to stand for income. He was kidding, but he had a serious point too: With government bonds generating historically low yields—the 10-year Treasury broke Read more…
The Financial Times is reporting that Deborah Fuhr, a fixture in the ETF Industry, is leaving Blackrock. Deborah was the Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy and a Managing Director at BlackRock. Under Ms Fuhr’s guidance, BlackRock’s Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy team was responsible for advising clients on the implementation of asset allocation Read more…
Alex Strashny: The risk of all the funds that we follow remain extremely high. Some funds, such as energy (NYSE:XLE) or gold (NYSE:GLD), might make good investments in the coming weeks, but they’re not there yet. The risk of many funds, including large-cap stocks (NYSE:SPY) is actually still growing, even though it’s already very high. Read more…
Alex Strashny: While some ETF’s have made good money last week, increasing their expected returns, their risks have gone into unacceptable territory. Read more…
Ron Rowland: Last week AdvisorShares introduced four new actively managed ETFs from two different managers. Madrona Funds, LLC is the sub-advisor and portfolio manager of three new “Madrona Forward” ETFs while American Wealth Management is the sub-advisor and portfolio Read more…
LQD, MATH, NYSE:BIV, NYSE:FWDB, NYSE:FWDD, NYSE:FWDI, NYSE:HYG, TIP
Innovation has become a hallmark of the ETF industry in recent years, as new and existing issuers alike have have rolled out increasingly complex and creative products that have further expanded the universe of asset classes and investment strategies available through exchange-traded products. Read more…
Alex Strashny: Our sole recommendation this week is energy (NYSE:XLE). XLE is in a strong uptrend that, with the recent bounce off the lows, has become slightly stronger. According to our Read more…
State Street Global Advisors launched the SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE:CBND) on Thursday (4/7/11). The underlying benchmark index intends to measure the Read more…
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