FIW News and Press, First Trust Water From 12/20/19

Pam Kearney: Welcome to the Tortoise podcast series on the water sector. Thanks for listening. I am Pam Kearney, and I'm joined by Nick Holmes and Evan Lang, portfolio managers of Tortoise's actively managed water strategies. With the end of the year approaching, we wanted to touch base on...

Introduction It has been a challenging year for the global economy in 2019, and 2020 is not shaping up to be much, if any, easier. We project global GDP growth will be 3.0% this year, which would be the slowest pace of growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009. For 2020, we do no...

Introduction The world economy is projected to grow by a decade-low 2.9% this year and next, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in its Economic Outlook, trimming its 2020 forecast from an estimate of 3.0% in September. - OECD sees global growth at decad...

Introduction Each month, I extract about a thousand mutual funds, exchange traded funds and closed end funds from Mutual Fund Observer, and rank them for Risk (MFO Risk, Ulcer Index, Category Performance During Recessions, Leverage, Debt Quality, Debt/Equity), Risk Adjusted Returns (MFO Rank...

Sign up on the podcast platform of your choice to make sure you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play Stitcher SoundCloud By Jonathan Liss On the latest episode of Let's Talk ETFs, I am joined by long-time Seeking Alpha contr...

Listen and subscribe to the Marketplace Roundtable on these podcast platforms: iTunes/Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Libsyn By Jonathan Liss I'm joined on the latest episode of The Marketplace Roundtable Podcast by long-time Seeking Alpha contribut...

First Trust Advisors L.P. ("FTA") announces the declaration of distributions for 115 exchange-traded funds (each a “Fund,” collectively, the “Funds”) advised by FTA. The following dates apply to today's distribution declarations: FTA is a federally registe...

By Jonathan Liss Having earned his stripes working for top Wall Street like S.A.C. Capital (founded and run by Steve Cohen) and Morgan Stanley American Opportunities Fund, Chaim Siegel, aka Elazar Advisors , is intimately familiar with the intricacies of building out earnings models....

The Energy sector ranks fifth out of the 11 sectors as detailed in our Q1'19 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter , the Energy sector ranked tenth. It gets our Neutral rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of the 171 stocks in the Energy sector. See a ...