WEBL ETF Continues Its Climb, Rises Over 20% Past Month December 24, 2020
As global economies cope with a surging second wave of coronavirus cases, the need for social distancing measures becomes even more prevalent. In turn, this will help boost internet usage and leveraged funds for traders like the
WEBL seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, of 300% of the daily performance of the Dow Jones Internet Composite Index. The fund, under normal circumstances, invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus borrowing for investment purposes) in financial instruments that track the index and other financial instruments that provide daily leveraged exposure to the index or to ETFs that track the index.
December 24, 2020
In times of market uncertainty, getting multi-asset exposure can help diversify a portfolio by adding uncorrelated assets to the mix in order to mitigate concentration risk in a particular asset class. But when an investor wants multi-asset exposure and income at the same time, there are ETFs to handle that:
CVY is based on the Zacks Multi-Asset Income Index (Index). The Fund will invest at least 90% of its total assets in securities and depositary receipts that comprise the Index.
The Index is comprised of domestic and international companies, including US listed common stocks, American depositary receipts (ADRs) paying dividends, real estate investment trusts (REITs), master limited partnerships (MLPs), closed-end funds and traditional preferred stocks. The Index is computed using the gross total return, which reflects dividends paid.
Inflation is eating part of your retirement plan. Sure, it looks like investment grade (IG) corporate bonds have a nice, fat yield over Treasuries, but it’s not enough.
Principal on Trends in Portfolio Construction Amid 2020 Volatility December 24, 2020
ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon spoke with Ed Nini, Global Head of Product Strategy for Principal Global Investors, about the tumultuous year that has been 2020 and what kinds of strategies have been put into place with various advisors to account for it. Specifically, Lydon wanted to hear from Nini about the trends in portfolio construction, given the current state of the market.
Throughout the year, the market has seen dramatic shakeups from all over, including a downturn for some of the standard money-making sectors and the rise of tech and thematic-based ETFs, based on trends that have taken hold. As far as emerging trends are concerned, Nini speaks to how the uncertainty of 2020 has not stalled the migration of assets to lower-cost passive vehicles.
December 24, 2020
While environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has caught fire in equities, bonds could present ETF investors with the next big thing. They can start looking at ESG-focused debt via funds like the
RBND seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the Bloomberg SASB ®US Corporate ESG Ex-Controversies Select Index that tracks investment grade corporate bonds issued by companies that exhibit certain ESG characteristics. Normally, the fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the index.