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The fund’s primary goal is to seek long-term total return. In pursuing long-term total return, RAAX seeks to maximize real returns while seeking to reduce downside risk during sustained market declines by allocating primarily to exchange-traded products that provide exposure to real assets, which include commodities, real estate, natural resources, and infrastructure. “RAAX invests in three types of real assets: financial assets, income assets and resource assets. RAAX evolved and diversifi...

February 24, 2021 Shares of Tesla are retreating, dragging other electric vehicle stocks along for the ride, but near-term volatility doesn’t dent the long-term electric vehicle thesis. Nor does it diminish the allure of exchange traded funds like the SMOG seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Ardour Global IndexSM (Extra Liquid). Tesla and Nio represent large percentages of the ETF’s holdings. With an emphasis on low...

February 24, 2021 Retail investors doubling as ‘do-it-yourself’ portfolio managers can orchestrate their own capital allocations into stocks and bonds. But the majority of investors can opt for a ‘set it and forget it’ option with the The fund seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Ned Davis Research CMG US Large Cap Long/Flat Index (NDRCMGLF). The NDRCMGLF Index follows a proprietary model that determines when, and...

The VanEck Vectors ® Real Asset Allocation ETF (“RAAX”) returned 7.21+% versus +2.63% for the Bloomberg Commodity Index. January started off strongly, RAAX was up 5.39% mid-way through the month, but it gave back much of this performance to finish the month with a total return of 1.24% as fears of dangerous COVID-19 mutations weighed upon the market.[1] RAAX invests in three types of real assets: financial assets, income assets and resource assets. RAAX evolved and diversified its financi...

Investors looking for alternative asset classes with eye-catching yields may want to consider business development companies (BDCs)...

“My vote would be for gold because it has thousands of years of a historical record as a store of value, has one-fifth the volatility of bitcoin, and doesn’t face the same competition risk,” said David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, former Chief Economist and Strategist for Merrill Lynch Canada and Merrill Lynch in New York. “The day that Queen Elizabeth trades in the five pounds of gold in her crown for crypto is the day I’ll shift course.” GDX seeks to replicate as closely as po...

In order to explain bitcoin to investors, we are offering a series of blogs and podcasts. A previous blog tried to explain the developments  driving bitcoin’s rally. This blog is the first in a series that covers topics that are important to investors. For more on this topic, please listen to the  The question “what is bitcoin?” can be answered in many ways. I don’t think investors need to know how bitcoin works technically, but they need to be able to assess the opportunities and ris...

The Consistency of Fallen Angel High Yield Bond Returns By William Sokol, Senior ETF Product Manager After essentially completing a market cycle in just three quarters in 2020, high yield spreads are back below historical averages and yields are as low as they’ve ever been. High yield investors may be asking what might drive performance going forward, and how to navigate an environment characterized by both tight spreads and higher corporate leverage, as well as continued low rates in the fac...

Muni yields rose another five basis points on the 10- and 30-year, bringing the total cuts to scales to 18 and 17 basis points, respectively, from Tuesday as the asset class moved closer to UST movements after lagging that market since the start of the year.

February 19, 2021 In the current low rate environment, fixed income investors don’t have time for any monkey business. When it comes to seeking income sources, one promising place to look is business development companies (BDCs) via the BIZD gets down to business by seeking to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS® US Business Development Companies Index. The fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in secur...