RWED News and Press, Direxion MSCI Emerging Over Developed Markets ETF From 10/18/19

The third quarter was slightly more challenging for emerging markets, driven in part by the twists and turns in global trade rhetoric. In addition, we continued to see revisions downwards in global growth balanced by monetary policy movements, i.e., reductions in rates, around the globe. Whi...

By Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department and Fabio M. Natalucci, Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department The pace of global economic activity remains weak, and financial markets expect rates to stay lowe...

By Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at IMF The global economy is in a synchronized slowdown and we are, once again, downgrading growth for 2019 to 3 percent, its slowest pace since the global financial crisis. Growth continues to be weakened by ris...

Chris explores ways to manage your EM allocation, an out of favor, but still appealing asset class. Emerging markets were the darling of investors as recently as the winter of 2019, but now find themselves once again as unloved as wearing white after Labor Day. The asset class has suffered...

The US-China trade conflict has remained at the forefront of investor concerns in recent months, with both governments imposing tariffs on each other’s goods. While continued tensions are likely to result in continued market volatility, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity nonethe...

By Sukumar Rajah, Senior Managing Director, Director of Portfolio Management, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Despite the US-China trade war, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity's Sukumar Rajah doesn't think the opportunity set for emerging markets is lost. He explains h...

Over the past 30+ years since the introduction of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, investors have evolved from holding minimal positions in emerging markets funds to holding more substantial allocations. Additionally, the choice of investment options has evolved from broad-based emerging mar...

By Justin Leverenz, Team Leader and Senior Portfolio Manager In the second part of this series, Justin Leverenz explains why it is companies, not countries, that may deliver equity returns in emerging markets. Many investors operate under the assumption that emerging markets ((EM)) e...

By Tyler Andries For the month of July, the ETF Deathwatch increased in size. Twenty-four exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 19 funds were removed, making July a busier month in terms of additions. Of the removals, 16 were removed due to increased health, and three...

Nate Geraci recently interviewed Direxion's Dave Mazza about their suite of " Relative Weight ETFs " launched earlier this year. I have long believed in the merits of tilting an equity portfolio towards value, small cap, and emerging market stocks, and so was intrigued by the promise of th...