January 20, 2021
ETF investors looking for a single-country opportunity can consider Latin America’s largest economy: Brazil. For traders seeking to lever up profitability with double exposure, there’s the
Global investment firm JP Morgan is already taking notice of Brazil. Per an Investopedia article, the “investment bank expects the country’s leading stock gauge, the Ibovespa, to reach a lofty end-of-year high of 134,000 amid a continuing shift from tech names to cyclical plays in the financial and basic materials sectors as global economic activity recovers.”
“We expect growth to pick up and the U.S. dollar to slightly weaken globally, providing room for value stocks to keep rallying,” the firm’s head of equity strategy Emy Shayo told Bloomberg in an interview late last year.
January 20, 2021
Dividend stocks steadied late last year after a turbulent first half. With that steadiness comes expectations that growth will resume this year. Those sentiments apply to international dividend payers too, enhancing the appeal of the
ALPS identifies the five highest-yielding securities in the 10 GICS sectors on the last trading day of November. From there, IDOG is rebalanced quarterly in an effort to keep sector weights in the area of 10% and individual holdings at around 2%.
With more looking to foreign markets as a way to diversify away from U.S. equities, investors will face certain risks associated with international exposure. Nevertheless, there are a number of smart beta global exchange traded fund strategies that can help investors better manage risks.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is expected to make its Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (J-REIT) buying more flexible when the board