FVD News and Press, First Trust VL Dividend From 04/07/23

2023-04-07 10:13:00 ET Summary Investing in dividend-paying stocks has proved to be a helpful strategy, outperforming global markets over the long term. Dividend income strategies play an important role for multi-asset income portfolios. But they can also run the risk of being too...

2023-04-07 09:34:00 ET Summary Over the 47-year period since 1975, value stocks with high ROE ratios outperformed the value universe of stocks for the one-year period after the curve first inverts by an average of 4.8%. When spreads are narrow and begin to widen, we are in the Bro...

2023-04-01 08:25:00 ET Summary Factors are the primary market drivers of asset-class returns. The year 2022 was a memorable one for investors, but for not altogether positive reasons. One bright spot, however, was the relative outperformance of equity risk factors versus other pop...

2023-03-25 07:38:54 ET First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund ( NYSEARCA: FVD ) - $0.2076 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.47% as of Feb. 28. Payable Mar 31; for shareholders of record Mar 27; ex-div Mar 24. For further details see: First Trust Value Line Dividend...

Summary The beginning of the year always offers a chance to catch up with a broad range of clients who are in the mode of thinking about the big picture outlook: pension funds, insurers, consultants and sovereign wealth funds across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. This note r...

Summary Classic inflation hedges still play vital roles in inflation-protection strategies. Investing in future-resources equities requires balancing forward-looking optimism with pragmatism. Style-balanced construction would require more trading and rebalancing than a simple cap-we...

Summary We think value stocks can outperform as interest rates head higher. Regions and sectors help us find quality within value and growth at a reasonable price. Stocks slid after the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge showed persistently high inflation, reinforcing wh...

Summary 2022 was a year where, suddenly, the value style of investing dramatically outperformed the growth style. Sector exposure is a detail useful to help in characterizing different index exposures. The S&P 500 Growth Index added Energy sector exposure due to strong price mom...

Summary DURA tracks the Morningstar US Dividend Valuation Index, selecting high-quality, high-yielding companies with attractive valuations. DURA's expense ratio is 0.29% and has $97 million in AUM. An unadvertised feature is DURA's low 0.77 five-year beta. Combined with an expected 3.3...

Summary Not all value strategies are created equal, and some stocks are cheap for a reason. Over the last 25 years, from 1997 to 2022, the MSCI USA Quality Index delivered an 8.6% annual return. In our view, falling earnings estimates, slowing GDP growth and tighter monetary policy ...