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February 19, 2021 Investors are often lead to believe that bonds are steady investments. They can also be wired to think that junk bonds are exceptionally volatile. Yet many fallen angels funds like the ANGL seeks to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield performance of the ICE BofAML US Fallen Angel High Yield Index. The index is comprised of below investment grade corporate bonds denominated in U.S. dollars that were rated investment grade at the time of issuance. “We belie...

The article explained how China’s success can be attributed to a shift away from a planned economy. Additionally, creating cheaper versions of existing products gave the Chinese population more access to technology like smartphones, which gave rise to tech giants like WeChat, Xiaomi, and Tinno. “Connecting the population digitally paved the way for apps like WeChat, which allow users to do everything from messaging to mobile banking,” the article noted. “These advances have become so wi...

Data released Thursday was mostly negative, with jobless claims rising, housing starts down and the manufacturing sector off from last month. Refinitiv Lipper reports $1.96 billion of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds.

February 17, 2021 With a global vaccine now in the deployment phase, higher growth is forecasted in economies around the globe. S&P Global Ratings is expecting India to recover by next year, which should certainly help benefit the The credit ratings agency is expecting India’s economy to grow 10% in fiscal year 2022, which runs from April 1 thru March 31 in the following year. “The Indian economy is on track to recover in fiscal 2022,” a S&P Global Ratings report said, according to a ...

Arian Neiron, VanEcks managing director and head of Asia Pacific, reminded that US President Joe Biden brought renewed hope that the world would work harder to meet the Paris climate agreement, to  which the US has re-committed. The new US administration had also promised to spend US$2 trillion on clean energy projects over the next four years.  “The demand for clean, green energy and the inevitable transition away from scarce non-renewable fuels was a global mega-trend offering huge invest...

Why Patience and Discipline Are Key for This Brazilian ETF February 16, 2021 Patience and discipline are important virtues for investors in the capital markets. They’re almost required in emerging markets. ETFs like the The fund seeks to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield performance of the MVIS® Brazil Small-Cap Index, which includes securities of Brazilian small-capitalization companies. A company is generally considered to be a Brazilian company if it is incorporate...

With the Right Dosage, EM Junk Bonds Like HYEM Can Work Wonders February 16, 2021 The combination of emerging markets and junk bonds may appear to be too risky for many income investors, but with the right methodology investors can dial back some of that risk while grabbing access to higher levels of income. Enter the VanEck Vectors EM High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEArca: HYEM). HYEM seeks to replicate the ICE BofAML Diversified High Yield US Emerging Markets Corporate Plus Index, which is compris...

The best performing of these four funds during 2020 was Premium China which returned 28.6%.   Following this, VanEck Vectors China New Economy ETF returned 26.8%, Vasco ChinaAMC China Opportunities returned 26.3%, and VanEck Vectors FTSE China A50 ETF saw the lowest positive return at 17.9%. However, Fidelity China reported losses of 7.9%.   The performance of the China funds compared to returns by the Asia Pacific ex Japan sector of 20.3% while those funds focused on single Asian countrie...

VanEck Introducing a Social Media ETF to Capture Retail Trading Hype February 11, 2021 With the advent of smartphone applications, it’s difficult to get away from social media. The majority of today’s retail investors are bombarded with social media influences on a daily basis. ETF provider VanEck has sniffed out an opportunity with the creation of the With all the hype surrounding the Reddit user forum WallStreetBets, the timing couldn’t be more auspicious. Since the GameStop debacle ...

February 10, 2021 As Bitcoin rises and the U.S. dollar starts to show signs of weakness, gold is hanging back, watching it all unfold. If State Street analysis can hold up, $2,300 gold prices aren’t out of the question, which will boost the “In a recent interview with Kitco News, George Milling-Stanley, chief gold strategist at State Street Global Advisors, said that he is not disappointed with gold’s recent price action as the precious metal saw its first negative start to the year si...