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A January research paper from Ohio State University slammed specialty ETFs for poor risk-adjusted returns, high fees and lack of diversification, concluding that such funds “deliver a negative alpha of about –4%” annually. “[T]hese [specialty] products compete for the attention of unsophisticated investors who chase past performance and neglect the risks arising from … under-diversified portfolios,” the paper states. “Specialized ETFs, on average, have generated disappointing performance for their investors.” But Canadian ETF providers take issue with that notion, contending t...

Global Energy Governance: Meeting The Challenge Of The Energy Transition Feb 19, 2021 10:15:am Summary Policymakers worldwide face the Herculean task of making the energy system more sustainable and climate friendly. While the world has seen other energy transitions, this one is different. In the past the world switched from one energy source (wood, coal, oil, electricity) to another, and the fuel switch was driven by major inventions (steam engine, combustion engine, light bulb). by: Kirsten Westphal, Oxford Institute For Energy Studies (OIES) Posted in: Global En...

Image source: Getty Images You didn’t have to invest during the market crash back in March 2020 to see what was coming. No, I don’t think that anyone could have really predicted a global pandemic. However, I do believe that if you paying close enough attention, the shift to a boost in tech stocks should have been seen coming a mile away. Or at the very least a kilometre. The problem is twofold for investors today. First, there’s the issue of risk. You don’t know which tech stocks are going to do well and which aren’t. Then there’s the other problem of cost. You...

Image source: Getty Images Tech stocks have had an incredible run over the past year. Two of the best-performing stocks on the Canadian stock market were both from the most exciting technology industries of the year. WELL Health Technologies(TSX:WELL) should both be on your radar for 2021.  But which one is better? Here’s a closer look at the prospects of these two industries and why I’m betting on one over the other.  Hive stock Over the past 12 months, HIVE stock is up a jaw-dropping 2,245%. In other words, a $1,000 investment in HIVE stock in January last year wo...

Reading Time: 2 minutes by Wayne Jones on January 19, 2021 Altcoins A Twitter user recently asked IOTA’s Mat Yarger about the Jaguar Land Rover partnership. Yarger, Head of Mobility and Automotive at the IOTA Foundation, said that the collaboration is still very active. He added that there would be some significant updates within the next two quarters, and he is pretty excited about it. What to Expect on the Alliance In the third quarter of 2020, the public distributed ledger (DLT) IOTA announced the IOTA Access‘s launch, an open-source framework that builds access control systems. A...