What Do Inventories Tell Us About the Economy
One benefit of factor investing lies in the cyclical nature of factors. Because various factors tend to perform differently depending on economic…
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3 Major Political Concerns Impacting the Market
The last week has seen a flurry of geopolitical tensions — from US sanctions on Russia to missile strikes on Syria —…
Tumbling Tech a Problem for ETF Investors
Amid a spate of earnings miscues from marquee technology names, exchange traded funds (ETFs) such as the Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSEArca:…
The New ETF Sector Investing Strategy
Sector ETFs and rotating your portfolios equity exposures is a tried and true approach to smoothing out volatility and producing returns. However,…
The Commodity Landscape Heading into 2016
The so-called commodities “super-cycle” came screeching to a halt in 2016 for exchange traded fund investors. China slowdown and a surging dollar…
Smart Beta Growth Powers PowerShares
Invesco’s (NYSE: IVZ) PowerShares unit is the fourth-largest U.S. issuer of exchange traded funds. PowerShares had over $100 billion in ETF assets…
BlackRock Best Positioned Asset Manager in ETF Biz, Says Morningstar
Among traditional asset managers competing in the exchange traded funds industry, BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) is best positioned to benefit from the long-term…
PowerShares: Vibrant M&A Activity May Signal Value Outperformance
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has been vibrant in 2014 after experiencing a lull between 2009 and 2013. During the first seven…
ETF Race Has More Than Two Horses
One of the bigger, if not the biggest, news items in the world of exchange traded funds today is that BlackRock (NYSE:…
Index Changes Bring Success for PowerShares DWA Sector ETFs
An exchange traded fund’s relationship to its underlying index is one of the most important and well-documented elements of ETF investing. From…
Sector ETFs in Small Packages
U.S. small –caps have delivered stellar returns this year. The iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSEArca: IWM), the largest small-cap ETF by assets,…
Small-Caps Getting Pricey
On above average volume, the iShares Russell 200o ETF (NYSEArca: IWM) gained almost 1% Thursday to race to a fresh all-time high.…
Buyback ETFs Keep on Delivering
According to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices, preliminary results show that S&P 500 stock buybacks, or share repurchases, increased 18.1% to…
Cyclical Rotation The Small-Cap Way
The iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund (NYSEArca: IWM) is off 2% in the past week and that may be viewed as a…