RXL News and Press, ProShares Ultra Health Care From 02/20/21

Often, the action in a stock is based on investors perceptions, but it can be a circular event.  Not only is the price action representative of perception, but it can influence perception too.  In the case of Proshares Ultra Health Care (NYSE: RXL) we can see this in the chart...

The advantage for dividend investors in this sector is the wide choice of large and well-established companies. AbbVie is a drug company with strong exposure to the immunology and the oncology markets. LeMaitre Vascular Inc. manufactures and distributes medical devices for the tre...

Risk assets continued their historic run last week with EM equities and commodities leading the way. Bonds sold off as the 10-year Treasury note yield broke above 1.20% for the first time since the lows last spring. The 10-year TIPS yield closed the week at 1.02%, near the all-tim...

After a dramatic year of volatility, the U.S. stock market ended 2020 at record highs. Can this momentum continue this year? ESG investments clearly outperformed in 2020. 2021 should be a year of much better cash flow for companies. For further details see: A Stock Picke...

The pandemic has sped up structural trends that are benefiting sectors such as technology and healthcare - and we believe these trends are not fully priced in. Rising inflation expectations have driven up U.S. 10-year Treasury yields but to a lesser degree than in the past, in line wi...

2020 was a busy year for global healthcare with unprecedented efforts to develop vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics for COVID-19. Deal flow in the sector continued to gain momentum in 2020, with M&A transactions and product licensing deals totalling five-year highs as large-cap...

ProShares, a premier provider of ETFs, announced today forward and reverse share splits on twelve of its ETFs. The splits will not change the total value of a shareholder’s investment. Forward Splits Two ETFs will forward split shares at the following split ratios: ...

We share three key lessons we learned from 2020 – and how they inform our 2021 outlook. The UK and European Union agreed on a trade deal. The U.S. launched a new $900 billion fiscal package amid climbing Covid hospitalizations and deaths. This week’s U.S. nonfarm pay...

Health Care sector has been resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical Devices companies have been most impacted due to the decline in elective surgeries. Health Care will continue to be driven by (1) demographic, and (2) innovation tailwinds. For further details see: ...

In this article I will walk you through the commonly used but wrong way to think about volatility decay. We'll then walk through an example of volatility decay with realistic numbers. Afterwards, we'll build a simple mathematical model to calculate volatility decay from first prin...