SEF News and Press, ProShares Short Financials From 01/12/21

This Bespoke Asset Class Performance Matrix (ACPM) shows that as of 1/8/21, Emerging Markets have started the year with decent returns. Oakmark International is particularly appealing given it's 3-year return (just barely positive) and its percentile rank in the high 90s for the 3-yea...

After years as an index fund evangelist at top ETF firms like BlackRock and SSgA, Dodd Kittsley did a 180 of sorts, becoming Director of active manager Davis Advisors. Still opposed to the “closet indexing” that marks many active managers, he was drawn to Davis’ u...

With plenty of positive news about potential COVID-19 vaccines in November, financial stocks in general have outpaced the S&P 500 in the past month, with consumer finance (red line in chart below), in particular turning in the best performance.Nasdaq U.S. Small Cap Banks Index (green), th...

As a percentage of the S&P 500's market cap, the Financial sector fell to below 10% to 9.9% of the S&P 500's market cap this summer, down from a 20% just prior to the real estate sector being spun out of the index as its own sector in September 2016. As of last Friday, Novembe...

Earnings have fallen more than 50% this year because of slow loan growth, lower margins, and higher provisions. The excess capital over regulatory minimums should give investors confidence banks can weather further headwinds. Future risks include lower for longer interest rates an...

The expected 2020 EPS growth rate for the Financial sector improved from -36% to -32% by the end of July '20 but has remained stagnant since. 2021's expected revenue growth was greater than the 2020 percentage decline until April 10th, and then, 2020's expected percentage decline ecli...

The Technology sector has been the hardest hit group since the S&P 500's last all-time high on September 2nd. As a result of those declines, the sector's weighting in the S&P 500 has dropped roughly 1.5 percentage points from 28.85% down to 27.35%. The Technology sector ha...

Downturns in bank credit expansion always lead to systemic problems. We are on the edge of such a downturn, which thanks to everyone's focus on the coronavirus, is unexpected. We can now identify March 23 as the date when markets stopped worrying about deflation and realised that monetary in...

David Aurelio of Refinitiv is doing an earnings conference call today, i.e. Wednesday morning, June 24th, 2020 at 11:00 am central time. Search the Refinitiv website or David Aurelio's blog for the details. This blog's source earnings data comes from Refinitiv, which sources the data from IBES...

Background Information This presentation was done to derive portfolios through COVID-19 and the path towards recovery. Feel free to leave comments down below if there are any questions regarding our analyses and assumptions. Executive Summary Given the current situation with ...