In a letter to CEOs in January, Blackrock (BLK) CEO Larry Fink wrote, "Climate risk is investment risk." He also observed, “In the near future – and sooner than most anticipate – there will be a significant reallocation of capital.” The price movement in the VanEck Vectors Low Carbon Energy

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine." – Benjamin Graham The VanEck Vectors Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF (PFXF) is an exchange-traded fund that invests in preferred shares from companies exclusively in the United States. It seeks to

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Since the COVID-related market meltdown in March, equity funds (including ETFs) have continued to suffer net outflows despite the average equity fund moving into positive territory and posting a year-to-date return of 2.93%. They have handed back some $317.0 billion year to date (their largest net outflows for any full

Invesco Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ) is a fund that invests mainly in consumer cyclical and communication companies. A little over twenty-five percent of the ETF is invested directly in the U.S. restaurant industry. I estimate that thirty-one percent of the ETF has U.S. restaurant exposure. It is for

Sign up for Let's Talk ETFs on your favorite podcast platform: By Jonathan Liss My guests today are Stacey Morris, Director of Research at Alerian and Paul Baiocchi, Senior Investment Strategy Advisor at SS&C ALPS. This is

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund (PDI) is finally trading at similar valuations to the other popular MBS fund, the PIMCO Dynamic Credit and Mortgage Income Fund (PCI). This was after several years of PDI trading at larger premiums than PCI. At the CEF/ETF Income

By Jeff Weniger, CFA Not many investors in 2020 give much consideration to the days of European and Asian communism. But maybe they should. The map below shows the reach of the USSR in the postwar years. Stalin negotiated well. One legacy the Cold War had on our industry was to

The market had lost some of its mojo in September but has regained ground since the start of this month. The S&P 500 is attempting to make new all-time highs once again. So, what's leading this fresh momentum? It's probably a combination of many positive factors, for example, the renewed

This article series shows every month a dashboard with aggregate industry metrics in materials. Most of the companies used to calculate these metrics are holdings of the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEARCA:XLB). Therefore, this is also a top-down survey of XLB. Shortcut If you are used to this dashboard series