
The Winds Are Changing for Active Management
By Rusty Vanneman, CFA, CMT, CLS Investments Chief Investment Officer Active management has had a bad rap in recent years, but I expect the…
By Rusty Vanneman, CFA, CMT, CLS Investments Chief Investment Officer Active management has had a bad rap in recent years, but I expect the…
By Rusty Vanneman, CFA, CMT, CLS Investments Chief Investment Officer Investors often ask, and for good reason, which asset allocation approach is best: strategic…
By Rusty Vanneman, CLS Investments At CLS Investments, we are heavy users of smart beta ETFs, so understanding smart beta is key to…
By Rusty Vanneman, CLS Investments Being a fiduciary means acting in a client’s best interests. Striving for lower costs is part of being…
By Rusty Vanneman, CLS Investments The Federal Reserve (Fed) is predicting two more rate hikes in 2017, and that has many investors weighing…
By Rusty Vanneman, CFA, CMT and Kostya Etus, CFA, CLS Investments The most well-known potential benefits of ETFs include: – Lower costs…
Investment portfolio turnover is an important statistic to consider when analyzing an investment portfolio. This consideration should apply to all investment portfolios,…
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) continue to dominate cash flows into investor portfolios — and for very good reasons. But ETFs have…
By Rusty Vanneman, CFA and Josh Jenkins, CFA At the mid-year checkpoint, income-oriented ETF portfolios are ripping it up. With a tailwind…
Note: This article appears on the ETFtrends.com Strategist Channel By Rusty Vanneman, CFA There’s a chart on factor investing that I love to…
Note: This article is part of ETF Trends Strategist Channel. By Rusty Vanneman Do ETFs and Moving Averages Mix? The short answer is yes, they…
ETFs are eating mutual funds’ lunch. And their breakfasts and their dinners. In 2015 alone, for example, ETFs had net inflows of…