ETFs
Have Emerging Markets Turned The Corner? – Weekly ETF Fund Flows
ETF outflows outpaced inflows as US stocks drifted lower last week. Fund flows are a valuable indicator of what traders are thinking. It takes a lot of buying or selling to drive millions or even billions of dollars into or out of individual ETFs. Fund flows are something traders use to find trends and gauge […]
3 ETFs Holding Airline Satellite Company Inmarsat
How can a Boeing 777, one of the safest aircrafts ever made, go missing for weeks? The world is demanding answers. Malaysia Airlines flight 370, on route from Kuala Lampur to Beijing, seemingly vanished mid-flight. The aircrafts transponder was apparently not functioning and not able to communicate with air traffic controllers. There has been only […]
The Sector Rotation Advantage
Are you intrigued by ETFs but still haven’t put them to work in your own account? I’m simply blown away at how many smart people don’t understand what exchange traded funds are. As some of you know, ETFs are like mutual funds but they trade like a stock and have lower fees than mutual funds. […]
Dividend ETFs – Weekly ETF Fund Flows
A few dividend ETFs popped up on our list of the top weekly inflows and outflows last week. It’s a good indication of where the best opportunities are in the slice of the US equity market. Vanguard Dividend Appreciation (VIG) led all ETFs with net inflows of $2.3 billion last week. VIG isn’t your typical […]
New Sector Leaders
Janet Yellen held her first policy meeting as the chairman of the US Federal Reserve this week. It didn’t take long for her to change the Fed’s game plan. In short, the Fed dropped the target unemployment rate and instead will look at a ‘wide range’ of economic data in deciding when to raise interest […]
Russian Roulette
Tensions are running high as Russian troops remain in control of the Crimea region of Ukraine. Russian President Putin hasn’t given any indication he’s going to back down. Now there’s the very real possibility of UN and US sanctions against the former Super Power. There’s no doubt about it, these sanctions will be felt not […]
2 Risky Investments Going In Opposite Directions – Weekly ETF Fund Flows
Over the last few months, we’ve seen investor sentiment swing from greed to fear and back to greed again…investors have certainly been a bit bi-polar lately. And those emotions have been reflected in the ETF fund flows. Investors have flooded into risky assets, like small-cap stocks and emerging markets, when greed is in control. When […]
411 On 3 Top Performing Telecommunication ETFs- VOX, VGT, IYZ
There’s no denying that most people cannot live without their cell phone. Over the last decade, we have become dependent on the smartphone to keep us connected. Payphones and landlines have become a thing of the past. What does that mean for your investment portfolio? The increase in demand for wireless service has made investing […]
ETFs With Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) – BBH, PBE, FBT
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) is the top performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (if you don’t count Forest Laboratories (FRX) that is being bought out). The biotechnology stock is up 32% year-to-date. The stock has been moving up and to the right across the chart since last July. And it has been racing to […]
Traders Flooding Into Leveraged ETFs– Weekly ETF Fund Flows
Traders became ‘ultra’-aggressive in their ETF allocations last week. ETF fund flows are a valuable indicator of what traders are thinking. It takes a lot of buying or selling to drive millions or even billions of dollars into or out of individual ETFs. Fund flows are something traders use to find trends and gauge investor […]
