January 15, 2021
A targeted dry bulk shipping exchange traded fund has rallied in the new year, breaking from traditionally weak seasonal trends.
Among the best performing non-leveraged ETFs of Friday, the
BDRY tries to provide exposure to the daily changes in the price of dry bulk freight futures by tracking a three-month strip of the nearest calendar quarter of futures contracts on specified indexes that measure rates for shipping dry bulk freight.
Capesize freight rates have touched a three-month high in January as supply chain bottlenecks from poor weather conditions across the Chinese coast and high commodity prices helped drive up demand for tonnage shipping, S&P Global reports.
January 15, 2021
Small caps are soaring, stealing some thunder from their oft-overlooked mid cap brethren. Investors shouldn’t sleep on the stocks in the middle. One prudent mid cap play is the
BFOR tracks the Barron’s 400 Index (B400), which takes 400 stocks from the broader MarketGrader U.S. Coverage Universe by using a methodology that selects components based on the strength of their fundamentals in growth, valuation, profitability, and cash flow, and then screens components for certain criteria regarding concentration, market capitalization, and liquidity.
“The characteristics inherent in mid capitalization U.S. equities have led to nearly 35 years of consistent and meaningful outperformance relative to small and large cap equities,” according to RBC Global Asset Management. “Indeed, this asset class is ripe with opportunities to invest in high quality, established organizations with substantial growth potential.”
January 14, 2021
There are a lot of growth themes to consider right now. ETF investors can opt for a thematic macro perspective with the
GXTG seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Solactive Thematic Growth Index. The fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in the securities of the underlying index.
The underlying index seeks to provide broad exposure to thematic growth strategies using a portfolio of ETFs. Overall, GXTG gives investors:
A Multi-Theme Solution: In a single trade, GXTG delivers access to multiple disruptive macro-trends arising from technological advancements, changing demographics and consumer preferences, or evolving needs for infrastructure and other finite resources.
January 15, 2021
Both ESG investing and energy have been prevailing trends getting a lot of investor interest to start the new year. ETF issuer VanEck is seeing interest in some more places forward-thinking investors may want to consider.
® Agribusiness ETF (MOO): seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS
® Global Agribusiness Index (MVMOOTR), which is intended to track the overall performance of companies involved in: agri-chemicals, animal health and fertilizers, seeds and traits, from farm/irrigation equipment and farm machinery, aquaculture and fishing, livestock, cultivation and plantations (including grain, oil palms, sugar cane, tobacco leafs, grapevines, etc.), and trading of agricultural products. MOO gives investors: