FVD News and Press, First Trust VL Dividend From 10/29/19

ETF Overview First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund ( FVD ) focuses on dividend stocks based on Value Line’s safety ranking. The safety ranking is based on stock price stability as well as financial strength of these stocks. FVD’s portfolio of stocks are constructed based o...

By Jeff Weniger It's not often that you come across a chart that rivals levels last seen on the day the stock market bottomed out during the global financial crisis-ancient history now. March 6, 2009, witnessed the S&P 500 touch an intraday generational low of 666 (it is 2,900 now). ...

Source: pxhere.com. Labeled for reuse (Creative Commons CC0). “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” – Author Fran Lebowitz Last December in the midst of a corporate credit meltdown, we penned an article, “ Growing Risk in Dividend Focused ...

July 2019 was a down month for dividend payers in the U.S. stock market. Compared to the previous month , it appears mixed mainly because June is typically among the slowest months of the year for firms declaring dividends. But it pales in comparison to what was recorded a year earlier, in Ju...

By Daniel Shvartsman The first half of 2019 saw a lot of green in the markets, as broader indices recovered from the brief bear market in the second half of 2018 and returned to new heights. Despite that, the wall of worry continued to grow, even if the specific concerns changed. Instead...

Introduction " Low Risk Portfolios For 2019 " is the December 2018 article where I started building a system based upon Mutual Fund Observer, Portfolio Visualizer and Morningstar to identify low risk funds with high risk adjusted returns. I wanted to see how that portfolio has performed co...

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...

With any method for computing investment risk and performance, it is important to use data covering as long a time period as possible. In particular, the measurement period must include both bull and bear markets for the investments of interest. - Peter G. Martin How Do You Measure Ris...

Pulse of the Market The S&P 500 started 2018 around 2,496 for a gain of less than 3% during the past 14 months. The low point of 2,448 occurred around January 3rd, 2019 for a draw down of 9% from the January 2018 start. Data by YCharts The current bullish trends appear to be a...