SMHB News and Press, ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Small Cap High Dividend ETN Series B From 05/02/23

2023-05-02 12:00:00 ET Summary ETRACS 2xMonthly Pay Leveraged US Small Cap High Dividend ETN has an impressive distribution rate. The SMHB exchange-traded note incurs 3 specific risks that plain vanilla ETFs don’t have. Moreover, SMHB has suffered a steep decay in value...

2023-04-21 13:29:56 ET Summary Imagine stocks or funds that pay-out their dividends once-a-month! Unlike waiting for quarterly, semi-annual or (ugh) annual payouts, your angst waiting for money is reduced by 300%, or more! These April U.S. exchange-traded monthly-paid (MoPay) divi...

2023-04-20 13:09:00 ET Summary We see that the 10s/2s has been inverted since roughly July 2022, while the 10s/3mo (historically the more accurate indicator of recessions) inverted in October. The consensus is that 2023 will witness a decline in corporate earnings as economic acti...

2023-04-13 00:59:00 ET Summary Given market uncertainty and the risk of a US recession, is now the time for defensive stocks? We think that reducing exposure to risk assets while increasing exposure to defensive equities with lower volatility and higher potential dividends may hel...

2023-04-07 10:13:00 ET Summary Investing in dividend-paying stocks has proved to be a helpful strategy, outperforming global markets over the long term. Dividend income strategies play an important role for multi-asset income portfolios. But they can also run the risk of being too...

2023-03-23 08:00:00 ET Summary Stocks paying higher dividends showed their mettle during a challenging 2022: the S&P 500 High Dividend Index declined only a modest –1.1% even as the S&P 500 tumbled –18.1%. In our view, much of the volatility in high-dividend ...

Summary The SMHB ETN provides 2x exposure to an index of small cap high yielding equities. The SMHB ETN has very poor historical returns of -15.1% p.a. over 3 years. The problem is its high fees and 'loss rebalancing events' where the 2x leverage is reset after a 20% intra-month los...

Summary The ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged US Small Cap High Dividend ETN seeks to track twice the monthly performance of the Solactive US Small Cap High Dividend Index. Investors fared better with the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, a passive SC ETF invested in the CRSP US Small Cap Index. ...

Summary Imagine stocks or funds that pay-out their dividends once-a-month! Unlike waiting for quarterly, semi-annual or (ugh) annual payouts, your angst waiting for money is reduced by 300%, or more! These January U.S. exchange-traded monthly-paid (MoPay) dividends, upsides, and net-gai...

Summary Prior to December 30, 2022, readers mentioned 40 equities in their recent comments. Some lamented bad news, so bad news investments (rogues) mixed with (mostly) favorites. (Thus, these are ReFa/Ro.). Ten analyst-target-estimated top-net-gain Re/Fa/Ro: OILK, VZ, EARN, WBA, HIMX, ...