SEF News and Press, ProShares Short Financials From 03/03/21

While unnerving, the late-February surge in global bond yields was a game-changer for equity market leadership, with important implications for navigating the road ahead. The rebound in financials dates from last November when vaccine breakthroughs stoked hopes for the global economy ...

There are some extraordinary things that are going on that we have not seen in a long, long time. As we think about what the implications for portfolio construction are, we first need to ask ourselves what is the role of the different asset classes in the portfolio. What if inflat...

The big news of the week was the spike in interest rates, which according to the press reports I read, "came out of nowhere". Last week's economic reports were mostly positive and better than expected. US stocks took a breather last week but global stocks managed a small gain. ...

Traditionally Wall Street has used fundamental analysis to make investment decisions in stocks like Proshares Short Financials (NYSE: SEF) but sometimes the most revealing aspect of the fundamental health of a company can be found through an observation of its price action.  Price ...

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...

What's impressive is that even as of last Friday, January 22, 2021, the forward quarters keep getting revised higher. However since January 1, and probably thanks to the 4th quarter rally in many of these names, a lot of Financial stocks are down hard. Most of these financials are...

Rising inflation expectations are becoming a key discussion point in 2021. Rates were already on an upward trajectory in Q4, but recent developments fast-tracked those concerns in the new year. For investors, the key question is whether rising inflation expectations actually materiali...

In a typical quarter, year-over-year (YoY) growth expectations decline by an average of 3.6 percentage points (ppts) from the start of the quarter to the start of earnings season. However, 20Q4 YoY earnings have increased by 1.5 ppts over this period to -10.3% by Jan. 1, 2021. Con...

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...

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...