QSY News and Press, WisdomTree U.S. Quality Shareholder Yield Fund From 09/28/21

Much of the outperformance of growth vs. value is explained by the persistently low-rate environment. Correlations between performance and the change in 10-year Treasuries seem to be getting stronger. Rolling 1-year correlation between changes in Treasury rates and growth/value re...

The current slowdown was telegraphed by the bond market, and we’re now in the midst of it. There are any number of reasons to think the economy will just keep fading all the way back to the pre-COVID trend of about 2%. I don’t see any reason to believe we are near recess...

The economic slowdown we’ve been writing about for months officially arrived last Friday in the form of a particularly weak employment report. But the US economy did still add 235,000 jobs in August. The economic recovery is still intact, even if at a reduced rate of change. ...

SYLD’s screening mechanism is robust and serves as the fountainhead of its relative outperformance. SYLD appears to be a well-rounded option relative to other peers. The current shareholder yields of the majority of its top-25 stocks are not too attractive vs. the historica...

After several strong quarters for value stocks, the last few months have seen a sharp reversal in favor of growth. The probability of any particular value stock being a “value trap” in a given year is about 30%. Value stocks are currently trading at a 40% discount to...

What we’ve seen this year is an exceptionally high rate of earnings growth across markets, but that’s not going to persist. It’ll start to moderate as we move into the second half of this year and slow further as we get into next year. And companies are going to b...

The WisdomTree U.S. Quality Shareholder Yield Fund (QSY), which targets high-quality companies with high levels of capital return, has experienced an even greater buyback rebound than the S&P 500. QSY’s 1-YR performance ranks in the top decile of funds within Morningstar&#x...

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...

To boil it down: a smart beta quality screen is for investors who want highly profitable companies that manage to pull it off without a mountain of debt. According to Bank of America’s quant team, we have not seen high quality stocks this cheap relative to low quality peers in ...

It is impossible to avoid all risks. I attempt to identify as many risks as possible and manage these risks by addressing them. All assets have embedded risks, whether we can identify them or not. Should one invest in growth or value? In examining eleven time periods, the average grow...