FDL News and Press, First Trust Morningstar From 03/05/24

2024-03-05 09:00:00 ET Summary DGI investors buy companies with long histories of increasing dividend payments. The strategy works because it shifts investors' attention to regular income payments, meaning they'll stay invested for longer. ETFs can supercharge the DGI strategy thr...

2024-01-30 20:20:00 ET Summary As normalization continues to play out during 2024, we expect inflation to return to the Fed’s target and for economic growth to moderate. As a result, rate cuts are likely to start between the second and third quarter. Softer consumer balance...

2024-01-25 00:05:00 ET Summary Investing in high-quality companies at fair values made billionaires of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. That formula, we find, still holds true. Value investing - the art of picking stocks at attractive prices relative to a company’s intrin...

2023-12-15 05:00:00 ET Summary The article discusses the performance of different equity factors in various inflation regimes over the past 20 years. Value underperformed during disinflationary shocks, while Quality, Momentum, and Low Volatility outperformed. Size and Value pe...

2023-12-14 13:45:51 ET Summary First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund ETF holds 100 stocks with 5-year dividend growth and sustainable payout ratio. The fund is concentrated in financials and top holdings. Valuation looks great, but quality metrics are below par. ...

2023-12-08 23:00:00 ET Summary Although value stocks have lagged their growth counterparts over much of 2023, we believe the set up for 2024 and beyond looks promising. Currently, the MSCI World Value Index’s price-earnings (P/E) multiple is trading at a discount to its his...

2023-12-07 09:00:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2023-11-10 07:30:00 ET Summary Value went through the longest and deepest dry spell in history from 2007 to summer of 2020. Depends how you define value. As a value investor, obviously that puts our company through a ringer and it has us challenging and testing our own assumptions...

2023-11-09 19:35:00 ET Summary The economy is still digesting the excesses of the Covid boom, and that process is not over yet. It could last several more years. Environments like this are characterized by unusually high risks, primarily because you’re coming off a period o...

2023-10-27 23:25:00 ET Summary After two quarters of strong equity performance, markets paused and reversed in the third quarter of the year. U.S. equities lost -3.2% and European equities lost -2.1%. Clearly, the change of tone at the U.S. Federal Reserve (“Fed”) pl...