Digging into Two Thematic Health ETFs
Note: This article is part of the ETFTrends.com Strategist Channel By Clayton Fresk In the ever-evolving ETF landscape, one of the newer developments is the increasing amount of thematic ETFs coming to...
View ArticleEnvironmental, Social and Governance ETF Investing Goes Global
By Clayton Fresk Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing has become more popular in recent years. While not a new phenomenon within the institutional space, the popularity of ESG...
View ArticleAnalyzing Two Smart Beta Bond ETFs
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management Portfolio Manager There has been a bit of publicity recently surrounding the impressive performance of, and the massive flows into, investment grade corporate...
View ArticleFidelity’s New Spin on a Dividend ETF
Throughout the first part of 2016, Dividend ETFs were all the rage. Performance was very strong and investors were seemingly piling money into these dividend payers. While the strong performance has...
View ArticleDigging into ETF Star Rankings
Beginning this past month, Morningstar changed their star methodology to combine the ETF and Mutual Fund universes into a single universe for ranking purposes. This was due in part to the continued...
View ArticleU.S. Interest Rates in 2017 Will Go…
The topic of higher interest rates has been on investors’ minds for seemingly years now. Every time interest rates climb even a little, more and more people seem to be hopping on the “this is finally...
View ArticleTech ETFs: One Year Later
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management A little over a year ago now, the markets here in the US were looking very vulnerable. After languishing essentially sideways during the spring and early...
View ArticleS&P 500 Complacency Comes to An End
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management For the better part of five months, the S&P 500 Index has been in what can be described as a rather complacent environment. One measure of this that has...
View ArticlePutting the ‘Fun’ Back in Exchange Traded Fund
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management The ETF industry is very serious. A constant barrage of data and analysis flows through the system. There are countless reports, articles, opinions, etc. that...
View ArticleDividend ETFs: Time to Buy After Recent Struggles?
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management Over the past year or so, the broad US equity market has been on a rather one-way churn higher. There hardly looks to be any real downturns outside some...
View ArticleESG Has Arrived in Fixed Income ETFs
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management It was only a matter of time before the ESG trend that the market has seen in Equity ETFs crossed over into the fixed income realm. iShares recently issued...
View ArticleETF Choices Beyond Broad U.S. High Yield
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management When analyzing the high yield ETF landscape, not shockingly it is dominated by two names – HYG and JNK. These have become the bellwether names for those...
View ArticleThe Many Flavors of Emerging Market Equity ETFs
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management So far this year, emerging market equities have been on a rampage, almost trading in a straight line higher. While this asset class can be worrisome to...
View ArticleS&P 500 – 2015 vs. 2011
For 2015, the S&P barely ended in positive territory, closing at +1.38%. Having seen strong performance the previous three years, the price action in 2015 is very reminiscent of 2011. In the...
View ArticleTarget Date Funds vs. Managed Accounts
The emergence of target date funds (TDFs) has proven vitally important for the retirement industry. Over the last 10 years, their significance has been magnified by key provisions of the Pension...
View ArticleFill in Broad Exposure with Completion ETFs
The ever-growing ETF universe continues to allow investors to slice and dice an ETF portfolio to get more and more nuanced exposure. This could be in the form of specific industry exposure,...
View ArticleBiotechs: Buying Opportunity or Warning Sign?
Since the summer of 2015, the Biotech industry has seen its worst drawdown since the 2000-2002 bear market. Additionally, the industry has failed to participate in shorter-term broad market rallies...
View Article6 ETFs for a Weaker U.S. Dollar
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management After spiking in the latter half of 2014 and churning higher in the latter part of 2016, the US Dollar has seen a rather steady decline in 2017 and thus far...
View ArticleCorporate Bond ETFs Moving More Vanilla
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management Innovation in the ETF industry normally consists of finding niches or methodologies that do not currently exist (or need improving upon). But at least in...
View ArticleETFs in Target Date Funds
By Clayton Fresk, Stadion Money Management Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have become an increasingly popular investment vehicle in the industry for multiple reasons, some of which include costs and...
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