ETFs Analysis & Opinion

The Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) is well-known amongst Canadians as being one of the largest banks in Canada. However, they are more than just a bank. Fun fact: BMO was actually Canada’s first...

Personally, I've seen two major ETF development trends in recent years. The first was the explosion of thematic ETFs, tracking everything from electric vehicles, marijuana, space travel, genomics,...

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...

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...

The two giants of the U.S. asset management industry, Vanguard and BlackRock continue to duke it out for market share in the increasingly crowded ETF space, as the former once again surpassed $2...

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...

Most U.S. dividend investors focus their holdings on ETFs that hold large-cap U.S. equities such as the Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM). Reasons for this include feelings of familiarity with...

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...