NFRA News and Press, FlexShares STOXX Global Broad Infrastructure Index Fund From 06/30/22

Data released in June showed that annual headline CPI inflation - previously thought to be cooling - had touched a new 40-year high. Substantial rate hikes are possible as the Fed remains focused on stabilizing prices; however, in the process, a recession may become unavoidable. W...

Casella has been a long-term value creator in the garbage collection and recycling market in the North Eastern parts of the U.S. I like the business and its track record, but valuations have gone a bit too far here. Despite Casella's continued bolt-on dealmaking and rosy future pr...

In an uncertain macroeconomic environment, the certainty of future earnings and growth will be key: infrastructure and utilities significantly outperform other equities on this measure. With a base case of slowing growth and higher inflation, our playbook for infrastructure portfolios...

ETF year-end report cards are in with only a few trading days left in 2021. Below is a breakdown of funds that received As and Fs for specific criteria. The grading conditions are broken down into five segments: inflows and outflows, performance winners and losers in passive and actively mana...

We have seen crypto disruption expand across the financial system and expect this to continue. Inflation pressures may linger through 2022 and pose a risk of spiraling into a more persistent economic factor. Historically in these market environments, real assets—including n...

If my assumption is correct, the COVID-19 crisis pushed the global markets into a 6+ month Summer, Autumn, and Winter seasonal cycle. My belief is the COVID-19 crisis created a full Kondratieff Seasonal rotation in the global markets. As we explore the Kondratieff Seasonal cycles ...

Industrial production rose 0.4 percent in June, the eighth gain in the last nine months. However, manufacturing output, which accounts for about 75 percent of total industrial production, decreased 0.1 percent. All other industries combined (total excluding energy, high-tech, and moto...

The importance of transit hesitancy on the future on commercial real estate. Is this the right time to buy retail assets? How to play the "once in a generation" build-out of new infrastructure. For further details see: Global Real Estate And Infrastructure: Should Altern...

franckreporter/E+ via Getty Images At a G7 summit over the weekend, President Biden pressed world leaders to take concrete steps to counter China's rising influence and put a heavy focus on the path toward decarbonization. The result? A global infrastructure project called "Build Back Better ...

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...