Fortifying Your Portfolio with the WisdomTree Cybersecurity Fund
By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research; Kara Marciscano, CFA, Senior Research Analyst
Our world was already becoming increasingly dependent on digital infrastructure, and then the COVID-19 pandemic catapulted digital transformation to the top of the priority list.
Security and privacy are at the epicenter of this complex and interconnected network of systems and devices. Individuals, enterprises and nations will need to invest to protect, defend and audit the integrity of these systems and the data that resides within them.
We view the cybersecurity industry as well positioned to meet the growing need to ensure that accelerated technology adoption is not outpaced by an increase in cybersecurity threats. In an effort to capture this new age of growth for the cybersecurity industry, we are excited to announce the launch of the WisdomTree Cybersecurity Fund (WCBR), which provides exposure to the companies w
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 21): The Maybank Global Sustainable Technology Fund is Maybank Asset Management’s (Maybank AM) first fund of its kind and represents an expansion of the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) offerings.
The fund, launched earlier this week, is a qualified Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) fund under the guidelines issued by the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC).
Maybank AM aims to achieve capital appreciation of the fund by investing mainly in a portfolio of global technology-related equities with Wellington Management Singapore Pte Ltd, one of the largest independent investment management firms in the world, as its fund investment adviser.
BlackRock Canada Announces Final Annual Reinvested Capital Gains Distributions for the iShares ETFs
Nachrichtenquelle: globenewswire | 31.12.2020, 02:16 | 170 | 0 TORONTO, Dec. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) BlackRock Asset Management Canada Limited (“BlackRock Canada”), an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), today announced the final annual reinvested capital gains distributions for the iShares ETFs listed on the TSX or NEO for the 2020 tax year. The distributions are for the annual non-cash capital gains distributions, which are typically reinvested in additional units of the respective funds at the year-end, and do not include estimates of ongoing monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual cash distribution amounts. The additional units will be immediately consolidated with the previously outstandi
Stock pickers tech addiction delivers a harsh blow to workers
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Stock pickers tech addiction delivers a harsh blow to workers
By Sarah Ponczek
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At least in the stock market s cold-blooded logic, 2020 will be remembered as the year when people became superfluous to the cause of progress.
At a time when the pandemic put 22 million Americans out of work, equity prices nevertheless rose by $US5 trillion ($6.5 trillion), thanks to gains in automated tech titans optimised for lockdown commerce. The situation became a symbol for inequality in the virus age, as money flowed to the rich and the poor got hunger and hardship.
At least in the stock market’s cold-blooded logic, 2020 will be remembered as the year when people became superfluous to the cause of progress.
To recap, at a time when the pandemic put 22 million Americans out of work, equity prices nevertheless rose by $5 trillion, thanks to gains in automated tech titans optimized for lockdown commerce. The situation became a symbol for inequality in the virus age, as money flowed to the rich while the poor got hunger and hardship.
While economists say there may be a reprieve their consensus is for unemployment to fall back to 5% by 2022 evidence is mounting that the stay-at-home trade and the insecurity it bespeaks will be harder than that to root out. Among it are signs that market forces are convincing corporate managers to shelve old-economy business investment and plow money into intellectual property.