There's a lot of chatter in the personal financial space on whether a 60-40 allocation of stocks and bonds can still fly in the current market environment.
European Investor Flows Reveal a Pickier Mindset with ETF Plays December 23, 2020
European exchange traded fund investors dumped S&P 500 exposure for the more technology-heavy Nasdaq-100 and a number of sector picks, like those that track so-called sustainable indices.
According to Invesco data, in the six years ended 2019, 59% of the $91 billion of net new money European ETF investors pumped into U.S. equities went into those that tracked the S&P 500, the Financial Times reports.
However, we witnessed a shift in preferences over the first 11 months of the year as Europeans yanked a net $7.8 billion from ETFs tracking the S&P 500, but they funneled $17 billion into ETFs based on other U.S. equity indices.
December 24, 2020
As investors start to reposition their portfolios for 2021, one question on their minds is whether to add gold. With the recent weakness in the precious metal, it could present a prime buying opportunity that could see gold end 2020 on a positive note with interest in ETFs like the
OUNZ, which is up 22% year-to-date, seeks to provide investors with an opportunity to invest in gold through the shares and be able to take delivery of physical gold in exchange for those shares. The Trust’s secondary objective is for the shares to reflect the performance of the price of gold less the expenses of the Trust’s operations.
ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon discussed the
Arrow DWA Tactical International ETF (DWCR) on this week’s “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Show.
DWCR seeks long-term capital appreciation that corresponds generally to the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Dorsey Wright Country and Stock Momentum Index. The index is constructed pursuant to Dorsey, Wright & Associates’ proprietary methodology. The index has a relative strength focus that looks for the 10 strongest performing countries among a universe of 41 countries. Once the country is identified, the index methodology is designed to identify 10 companies that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics within that country. The fund and the index are equally weighted and rebalanced and reconstituted quarterly.
Get On Board a Growing Biotech Industry With the GNOM ETF December 23, 2020
It’s one thing to discuss the economics of investing in the biotech sector, but it’s another to discuss genomics. The sub-sector of the biotech industry has seen strong growth as evidenced by the over 60% gain year-to-date for the
GNOM seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive Genomics Index that is designed to provide exposure to exchange-listed companies that are positioned to benefit from further advances in the field of genomic science and biotechnology, as well as applications thereof (collectively, “Genomics & Biotechnology Companies”), as defined by Solactive AG, the provider of the underlying index.