GUNR News and Press, FlexShares Global Upstream Natural Resources Index Fund From 04/23/21

The pace of recovery has begun to diverge across economies, with vaccination progress and the scale of government stimulus among the biggest swing factors. Macro disparities have also begun filtering into EPS growth expectations. Cyclically sensitive sectors have dominated the upg...

An overview of inflationary indicators from Germany, China, and the US. Where do these price increases come from? Will those price increases last? Will inflation continue like in the 70s & 80s? How to position your portfolio to benefit from increasing commodity prices. ...

The basic materials sector is relatively small when you only consider dividend-paying companies. The basic materials sector is best for growth investors. APD has found an interesting way to position its business in a sector where most are stuck with commodity price fluctuations. F...

The FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources Index Fund holds 120 natural resources companies operating mainly in the energy, metals, and agriculture industries and has $3.59Bn of assets under management. Several commodities have rallied in the past few months, and the...

My December 2019 Seeking Alpha article, "Mean Reversion + Valuation = Opportunity" identified underperforming asset classes that were attractively valued and poised to generate above average returns in the future. Here we revisit how those assets have performed since the beginning of ...

By a number of metrics, the 2008-2020 period was similar to the 1929-1940 period. However, monetary policy and technology were very different, which disguised some of the similarities. Portfolio positioning for rising populism and ongoing fiscal dominance. For further detail...

There are several different types of "money-printing" that often get conflated into one. QE to recapitalize a banking system is very different than QE to finance fiscal deficits, as it relates to its impact on the broad money supply. A deep dive into some of the mechanics of monet...

Recently, in my article " Natural Resources Equities: Preparing for Reflation and a Dollar Decline ," I outlined the case for the sector as an effective core portfolio holding to protect against the likelihood of reflation and a coming dollar decline, if not outright crash. Here, I analyze f...

These are unreal times. There is substantial risk of reflation and significant dollar devaluation due to recent and anticipated additional fiscal and monetary stimulus. Natural resources equities represent ownership in longstanding, successful businesses that produce real assets that are essen...

If you looked at the two different covers of The Economist for May 30, 2020, you saw the 100,000-death message on the American version, and you saw the Hong Kong security law depiction on the Asian edition. Internal content was mostly the same, but the lead stories reflected the world as the...