ETFs Analysis & Opinion

Recently, the United States Commodity Funds LLC (USCF) announced it has launched the USCF Sustainable Battery Metals Strategy Fund (ZSB), which seeks total return by investing primarily in metals...

Portfolio construction can vary wildly in complexity. On one end, you have all-in-one asset allocation ETFs which provide a range of stock/bond allocations for investors of all risk tolerances. In...

Over the past six months, the Canadian Materials sector has been rallying and is now up approximately 10%. This compares to the performance of the S&P/TSX index (+3%) and the S&P500 (-2%)...

Bond prices continued to rebound last week as investors worried that the turmoil in the banking sector could spread.Government bonds in developed markets ex-U.S. posted the strongest gain for the...

Gauging investor sentiment is a difficult task, particularly in an uncertain market environment. However, ETF fund flows can be a useful barometer in assessing sentiment and understanding investor...

The most "famous" Canadian ETF without a doubt is the iShares S&P/TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), and for a good reason. This ETF played a critical role in the genesis of the ETF industry, owing to it...

One of the coolest Canadian ETF releases recently (at least in my opinion) was Purpose Investment's suite of yield shares. For those out of the loop, these are Canada's first single-stock ETFs, and...

Government bonds recovered last week, leading the risk-off trade in global markets amid the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history on Friday.The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank raised the...

Many countries are experiencing a worker shortage. In the US, half of all Baby Boomers are now 65 or older and are moving into retirement.  This trend is not limited to the US. Between 2015 and...

The U.S. ETF industry may have started 30 years ago with a simple S&P 500 index ETF, but today it's grown far beyond that. In recent years, more and more ETF managers have been pushing the...

As reported by Comscore in their State of Digital Commerce report, US online retail spending exceeded a trillion dollars ($1.09 Trillion) in 2022, making it the highest year of digital commerce...

There has been a recent debate surrounding the returns of the S&P 500, with concerns that performance is too heavily reliant on a small group of companies in tech-related sectors. This has led...

One of the best resources for Canadian investors over the last decade was (and still is) Canadian Couch Potato. Run by Dan Bortolotti, the blog offers Canadians a complete guide to index investing. A...

The story of 2023 is the AI revolution, and it all started off with the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI to the general public on November 22, 2022. Since then, OpenAI has grown to a valuation of $29...