Time to Look Under the Hood of Your Alternatives
By Toroso Asset Management In last week’s TETF index update, we discussed the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) hitting all-time highs and FAANG…
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Looking for Risk in all the Wrong Places
By Richard Bernstein, Richard Bernstein Advisors We recently received an email from a reporter asking whether we were concerned that there was…
Strong Economy and Jobs Market As September Begins
By Horizon Investments It was another week of solid economic data in the U.S., including: Both the ISM Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing indices significantly…
‘Special FX’: Why RiverFront Isn’t Currently Hedging Major Foreign Currencies
By Doug Sandler, Chris Konstantinos & Rod Smyth, RiverFront Investment Group Most U.S. citizens could be forgiven for not bothering to pay close…
Harvard University and the ETF Ecosystem
By Toroso Asset Management Readers of TETF.Index Weekly know that at Toroso we are obsessed with ETF statistics about the ETF Ecosystem, but sometimes it…
Record Setting Rally Continues – Gap Widens Between U.S. and International Equities
By Peter Eisenrich, CFA®, Clark Capital Management Group Benchmark Review & Monthly Recap, August 2018 The S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite and Russell 2000 indices each…
ETF Issuers 6-Month Asset Growth
By Toroso Asset Management At Toroso, we have been keeping meticulous track of the ETF industry for just over six years. The ETF industry…
Confident Consumers Help Power More Market Gains
By Horizon Investments U.S. economic data for the week was mostly robust. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence indicator exceeded expectations, coming in at…
August Fixed Income Outlook in 5 Charts
By Sage Advisory 1. The real policy rate, aka the Federal Funds rate minus the core inflation rate, remains below zero. Compared to…
Strategists Say Pricing Power is Back in Weak Areas
The bullish run of the U.S. markets spanning across the last several months has investors in mixed sentiment. In August, the Dow has…
Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware)
By Denis Rezendes, Beaumont Capital As a Tactical ETF Strategist, we consider ourselves fairly qualified to navigate the exchange traded product (ETP)…
Thematic Growth Continues in ETF Ecosystem
By Toroso Asset Management Over the past few years, thematic ETF investing has grown significantly. Of the 151 ETFs launched in 2018, 22…
Is it Time to Buy Turkey?
By Kostya Etus, CFA – Portfolio Manager ETFs are a modern marvel, allowing investors to allocate to exposures such as individual countries…
International Stocks: Cheap, But Not Working
By Doug Sandler, Chris Konstantinos & Rod Smyth, RiverFront Investment Group Last week we further reduced our exposure to international markets in our…