NFRA News and Press, FlexShares STOXX Global Broad Infrastructure Index Fund From 04/29/21

With greater clarity on the sustainability of the economic recovery, we also saw the opportunity set across markets broaden to include sectors beyond those seen as the primary beneficiaries of an economic reopening. As expected, the recovery hasn't been smooth sailing for all, with su...

Even during normal times, the Utilities sector is anything but sexy. In most times, investors can appreciate low risk and high yield, even when it comes at the expense of growth and price appreciation potential. The problem is, we're living at a time where the only things that see...

Why not all infrastructure is made equal. Opportunities and strategies in infrastructure investing. Finding resilience in the pandemic through global infrastructure. For further details see: Finding Resilience: Investing In Global Infrastructure

by Nick Langley, Portfolio Manager The COVID-19 pandemic has meaningfully hit most countries in the world, bringing with it a toll on human lives and livelihoods. As governments move to mitigate the public health crisis and support economies through monetary and fiscal policy, many are a...

Last week’s post discussed the Thematic Global ETFs and their potential to point today’s investors toward stocks that may become the FANMAG of 2040. I provided access to a spreadsheet identifying 97 of them , and in the text of the article, I named 16 ETFs as being rate...

I’ve written critically of well-established mega-ETFs that are all in on FANMAG - Facebook ( FB ), Amazon ( AMZN ), Netflix ( NFLX ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), Apple ( AAPL ) and Google (GOOG) ( GOOGL ) - and similar kinds of popular stocks, not necessarily because I have anything ag...

Introduction The world economy is projected to grow by a decade-low 2.9% this year and next, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in its Economic Outlook, trimming its 2020 forecast from an estimate of 3.0% in September. - OECD sees global growth at decad...

Introduction Each month, I extract about a thousand mutual funds, exchange traded funds and closed end funds from Mutual Fund Observer, and rank them for Risk (MFO Risk, Ulcer Index, Category Performance During Recessions, Leverage, Debt Quality, Debt/Equity), Risk Adjusted Returns (MFO Rank...