By Tianyin Cheng, Senior Director, Strategy and Volatility Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices Water is essential to the production and delivery of nearly all goods and services. Many businesses are reliant on a sufficient flow of clean water to operate and realize their growth ambitions. Overconsumption of water, water pollution, environmental degradation, and changing climatic conditions [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Stephen McBride Who will be crowned the world’s first trillionaire? Mark Cuban says there’s one disruptive trend that’ll bring a whole new meaning to the word “rich.” You likely know Cuban as a star investor on ABC’s Shark Tank. The billionaire also owns the Dallas Mavericks. His big call? “The world’s first trillionaires are going to come [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy, WisdomTree The question of the week in bond-land is, “what will the impact of the ‘blue wave’ be?” In our Market Insights: Planning for Potential 2020 Election Results, WisdomTree offered a variety of scenarios for investors to consider. One such outcome was a Democrat sweep, or “blue wave,” [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Dawn Pennington Sometimes, a trend that you want to play — like privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo or road safety drone/AI company RoadBotics — doesn’t have a viable public way to invest in it. That doesn’t mean you have miss out. You can play today’s hottest trends right on the public markets … even if a company never IPOs. [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Jeff Weniger, CFA, WisdomTree This is the third of a three-part blog post series. Part one lays out why COVID-19 can affect the growth versus value decision . Part two discusses Florida, the hotly contested swing state. Here, we discuss the battle for the Southwest. Do not get lulled into focusing on just Ohio, Wisconsin and the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Stephen McBride Brian Chesky’s bank account had dwindled to $1,000. He had no job. And the rent on his San Francisco apartment was about to jump by 25%. With his back against the wall, Chesky tried a “silly” idea to make some cash. He put three inflatable mattresses in his spare bedroom and offered [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By David Schassler, Portfolio Manager and Head of Portfolio and Quantitative Investment Solutions, VanEck VanEck NDR Managed Allocation Fund (NDRMX) tactically adjusts its asset class exposures each month across global stocks, U.S. fixed income and cash. It utilizes an objective, data-driven process driven by macroeconomic, fundamental, and technical indicators developed by Ned Davis Research (NDR). The Fund [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Stephen McBride Do you know who said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” It’s attributed to Henry Ford, inventor of the first mass-produced car. Ford knew an important truth: People have no clue what they really want until you show it to them. That’s because of “faulty wiring” [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Whether you support President Donald Trump or not, you must acknowledge that one of the bedrocks of his governing style is unpredictability. To some critics, Trump’s behavior and decision-making process may seem erratic, but I believe they make a sort of sense when viewed through the lens of game theory. Take, for example, his hot-and-cold [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Dawn Pennington Just like the legend of a bow-and-arrow toting, Sherwood Forest-dwelling vigilante, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Robinhood set out to bring that sentiment to the retail investing set with a brokerage app. The company was founded in April 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, who had previously built high-frequency trading platforms for financial [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
The presidential election could decide the direction the U.S. government takes with regard to socially responsible investments like those that track environmental, social and governance factors. Beyond the obvious point that a Joe Biden administration would likely take a negative stance on fossil fuel and a positive outlook on sustainable investments, a Democratic-led administration could [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
U.S. markets and stock exchange traded funds were higher Friday as hopeful investors looked to recent developments for a coronavirus vaccine, along with improving retail sales data. On Friday, the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) fell 0.1%, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEArca: DIA) was up 0.6% and iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca: [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
As we break down how certain sectors of the economy will react to the election, investors can consider an exchange traded fund strategy that could benefit in the environment ahead. In the recent webcast, The Fundamental You’re Probably Overlooking: Free Cash Flow, Bob Shea, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, TrimTabs Asset Management, explained that the [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
ProShares launched a new ETF on Friday that invests in companies which may benefit from transformational changes in how we work, take care of our health, and consume and connect—changes accelerated by COVID-19. The ProShares MSCI Transformational Changes ETF (NYSE: ANEW) provides access to companies involved with one or more of four key Transformational Changes, as determined [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
Historically, small caps are winning bets, but many traditional index approaches to smaller equities expose investors to volatile, lower quality fare. The ERShares Non-US Small Cap ETF (ERSX) is an exchange traded fund offering a refreshing small-cap purview. ERSX tracks 50 non-U.S. companies from around the world with market capitalizations between $300 million and $5 [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Beaumont Capital Management U.S. CPI grew 0.2% in September—its slowest pace in four months—to 1.4%, directly in line with expectations but again short of the Fed’s 2% target. Still, it’s a rosier picture here than in Europe, where core inflation looks to be cruising downward toward zero. And we’ll say it again: the bond [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.
By Lawrence Hamtil A few years ago, I wrote an article titled, “The Value of Lasting Moats,” in which I made the argument for a few select industries in which the incumbent players enjoy competitive advantages, or “moats”, that are extremely durable: “The reason I think a lasting moat is important to consider is because [...] Read more at ETFtrends.com.