ETFs Analysis & Opinion

With $10 trillion* in assets under management, BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) is the largest asset manager globally. Attaining such a size and stature requires ongoing product development and enhancement of...

The long-awaited Tuttle Capital Management Inverse Cramer Tracker ETF (SJIM) was released to much fanfare on March 1st, 2023, and investor sentiment is split. Some laud it as a highly innovative idea,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...