FVD News and Press, First Trust VL Dividend From 09/29/22

Summary FVD holds nearly 200 U.S.-listed low-volatility, dividend-paying stocks. Assets under management exceed $12 billion, but the fund's expense ratio is high at 0.67%. FVD yields 2.14%, and I'm forecasting only a slight improvement to 2.50%. Still, its sales, earnings, and div...

Summary As the Fed walks the line between curbing inflation and averting recession, anxious investors are seeking to balance the two risks. The question now is how fast can inflation fall and where does it come to rest? We don’t see a quick retrenchment or a return to the o...

Summary With inflation at the highest level in decades and volatility continuing to surge, equity investors are questioning their next moves. At the beginning of the year, financial conditions were very loose by any means historically, and we've very rapidly moved from loose finan...

Summary The main economic data release for the trading week is the US inflation report. The UK economy is in a precarious position and facing a recession. Chinese President Xi is expected to meet with Russian President Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in U...

Summary The strategic case holds that factors may help from both a return perspective and as a source of diversification. The recent performance turn will likely convince more investors that subpar factor performance in recent years was cyclical, not structural. Higher-quality...

Summary The value rotation story has been hard to miss - it’s a trend that’s been underway since late 2020 and has since continued to gather steam. A theme often heard in the narrative is that value had been floundering relative to growth for a long stretch leading u...

Owning ETFs that invest in the same or similar assets isn't an efficient use of capital. A solution is to consider each ETF's overlap at the industry level. Industry level details on ETFs are hard to find, but I've summarized them for the ten largest dividend ETFs on the market today,...

Historically, the best time to overweight value stocks has been in the early stages of a recovery, when economic growth is accelerating, and value tends to be cheap. Aside from energy, few sectors or styles have produced positive returns in 2022, but until recently value consistently ...

The Fed is intent on raising interest rates to fight inflation and must balance the risk that creates for economic growth. In an analysis of growth versus value stocks using data since 1927, we found value had achieved greatest outperformance in periods of moderate to high inflation. ...

If you think of all the different index providers, each has its own definition of the fundamentals that it believes denote “value.”. If stocks can experience severe reductions in their price-to-book value ratios (another way of saying an increase in book-to-price ratios)...