FTLS News and Press, First Trust Long/Short Equity From 06/28/23

2023-06-28 10:46:03 ET First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF ( FTLS ) - $0.2047 . Payable Jun 30; for shareholders of record Jun 28; ex-div Jun 27. For further details see: First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.2047

2023-06-28 10:40:04 ET First Trust Senior Loan Fund ( FTLS ) declared $0.2047/share quarterly dividend . Payable June 30; for shareholders of record June 28; ex-div June 27. See FTLS Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details see:...

2023-03-22 12:49:00 ET Summary Valuations need to be reset from their lofty 2021 multiples, and the SVB collapse has merely accelerated the adjustment in valuations. Amid a flood of cheap money from the Federal Reserve (Fed), years of low interest rates and a pullback in corporate...

Summary Markets may be underestimating the stickiness of inflation and central banks’ determination to beat it - and what that means for growth and corporate earnings potential. We favor fixed income and credit over equities, and investment grade over high yield. Should infla...

Summary A lot of inflation expectations are driven by energy prices and perhaps more modestly, by the costs of basic foodstuffs. Inflation expectations are also linked tightly to agricultural prices, most particularly corn. Backwardation, or inversion, has characterized the cr...

Summary The WisdomTree CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Strategy ETF invests based on the CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Index, which tracks the value of a Cash-Secured-Put option sales strategy. This ETF was mentioned in many of my articles that reviewed my CSP results which I restarted thre...

May was not the best month for alternative investment ETFs, at least as measured by the asset class’s largest portfolios. Less than a third of the funds produced price gains for the month. If one believes the past is a predictor of the future, one might be sorely tempted to all...

TransDigm is one of the world's biggest aerospace suppliers with a big pricing and aftermarket advantage. The company is down 20% from its all-time high as the market is pricing in slower economic growth. The good news is that TDG's financials are improving, which gives this high-...

First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:FTLS) - $0.0033. Payable Dec 31; for shareholders of record Dec 27; ex-div Dec 23. For further details see: First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.0033

Recent hedge fund results have been strong in the era of COVID-19, with the HFR Fund Weighted Index returning 27.5% for the year ending June 30, 2021 and 10.1% year-to-date. Overall, hedge funds have played the important role of downside management with upside participation during the...