Using the fund-of-funds investment strategy has proven quite successful for many US fund managers. First Trust Advisors, the Illinois-based seventh-largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, recently launched a dynamic version of its most popular sector-rotation ETF that can incorporate cash allocation during periods of heightened market volatility. The First Trust Dorsey Wright Dynamic Focus 5 ETF (FVC) employs the same methodology …
New ETFs On The Block: Loncar Cancer Immunotherapy ETF (CNCR)
Taking a plunge into the healthcare sector when it’s fighting with a huge image problem requires courage. Moreover, when the investment product targets the biotech sector – which recently witnessed a big sell-off amid a raging drug-pricing controversy, questions are bound to be raised about the timing. But for Brad Loncar, the Kansas based former budget manager in the international …
New ETFs On The Block: ProShares S&P 500 Ex-Sector ETFs
Investors that believe in passive investment strategies by replicating the broader US market – the S&P 500 index – may not be very happy about the market’s performance year-to-date. Relentless worries over global growth, be it China, Japan, Europe or the emerging markets, the index got hammered several times this year. Empirical data show severe downturn even in one sector …
New ETFs On The Block: Global X Junior Miners ETF (JUNR)
Chart courtesy of YahooFinance (Click to enlarge) Global X, the New York-based provider of exchange traded funds best known for its emerging market funds, has rebranded its Global X S&P/TSX Venture 30 Canada ETF to play the global small-cap miners niche. The Global X Junior Miners ETF (JUNR) tracks the Solactive Junior Miners Index and is the first ETF to …