QDF News and Press, FlexShares Quality Dividend Index Fund From 12/06/21

The US rebound from the Q3 slowdown is in full bloom. The economy certainly looks like it is on solid ground right now. So, why in the world are bonds rallying? The 10-year Treasury yield fell 10 basis points on Friday after the payroll report. The movements in bond markets today ...

Each month, I give a broad overview of dividend and income-focused ETFs, selecting them from my growing database that now includes 740 funds. You'll find information on your favorite ETF's historical returns, risk, yield, growth, fees, concentration levels, and more. November saw ...

We think current cost-push inflation is poised to give way to a healthy, regenerative demand-pull environment, replete with moderate economic growth that is beneficial for the value companies in which we invest. History has shown moderate inflation can be good for value stocks. We con...

Each month, I review the periodic performances of dividend and income-focused ETFs, and for October I added 34 funds to bring the total to 77. I've categorized these ETFs to make it easier to find the best ones that match your investment style. Important metrics like yield, divide...

We noted in our quarterly letter that every brokerage house on the Street was bearish and telling its customers to expect stocks to move into a correction. We also reminded you that one of Reilly’s Rules is that when everyone expects something to happen something else usually does....

Bonds sold off again last week, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury closing over 1.6% for the first time since early June. But this rise in rates is at least a little different than the fall that preceded it. When nominal rates fell from April through July, real rates fell right al...

One of my greatest investment regrets remains the time I sold all my Altria shares in 2003 after making a profit of only 150%. Years after Altria spun off its ex-US business as Philip Morris, I continued to watch it, and started buying back in when the yield rose above 6%. Now tha...

One of the big themes that we've seen the last few weeks is interest rates rising and value outperforming growth. Strategas' Todd Sohn examines the reemergence of cyclicality following an economic "growth scare." Todd breaks this down before taking us through some timely sector an...

The historic valuation gap between global Value and Growth stocks finally began its reversal. Despite pockets of outrageously overvalued Growth stocks being de-rated in Q1 and Q2, we still believe we are in a Growth bubble. Speculative behavior is rampant. We firmly believe that v...

The Large Cap Value Style ranks first in Q2'21. Based on an aggregation of ratings of 70 ETFs and 706 mutual funds. QDF is our top-rated Large Cap Value ETF and SLESX is our top-rated Large Cap Value mutual fund. For further details see: Best And Worst Q2 2021: Large Cap...