ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics (ARKQ) more than doubled investors’ money over the past year.
The strong performance has made the ARK funds all the more desirable for investors, who have poured millions of dollars in every day during the second half of 2020. The pace just picked up to a record level over the past month.
In December, ARK Investments took in nearly $6.8 billion new assets, the third most only behind ETF giants Vanguard and
BlackRock’s (BLK) iShares, according to data from FactSet. That’s especially impressive considering ARK has seven ETFs under its sleeve, while
BlackRock and Vanguard have hundreds.
Negotiations between the U.K. and the E.U. are still ongoing as both sides put the finishing touches on the Brexit deal. A source at the EU’s executive, the Commission, said talks were still ongoing but were now in their “final stages”, and one EU official urged caution, Reuters reports.
Nevertheless, three diplomatic sources in the bloc told Reuters that member states were already prepping to implement any deal from Jan. 1 if one was made.
The United Kingdom has been negotiating a free trade deal with the EU bloc as it exits from the EU’s single market and customs union at the end of 2020. A Brexit trade deal would ensure that the exports between the two that makes up half of annual EU-UK commerce, worth nearly a trillion dollars, remains free of trade barriers.
The Global X Cloud Computing ETF (CLOU) is already up over 80% year-to-date and it can only keep climbing to the clouds. The fund's trailing returns show the fund has risen 24% in within a 3-month span and almost 16% in a 1-month span.
On the topic of
diversification:
“The globalization of business and markets is contributing to an increased allocation to international stocks in the portfolio, driving increasing currency risks. While investors may be eager to diversify their investments, they may not want to increase the overall risk of their portfolio, and as a result demand for currency-hedged funds by investors has been increasing. Hedging offers the opportunity to take advantage of these markets without having to accept the currency losses.”
Watch: What is Currency Hedging?
In terms of
political uncertainty:
“The panic that occurred as a result of Brexit wiped $2 trillion off market values worldwide. It triggered one of the most volatile trading sessions in history. The British pound suffered its biggest one-day selloff. Sterling suffered a plunge in London, from $1.50 against US dollar to just $1.368 in a day. Drastic swings happen from time to time in history due to politics, but are challenging
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