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A: Barrick Gold Corporation, $24.46, symbol ABX on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $43.9 billion; www.barrick.com), is the second-largest gold mining company in the world after Newmont Goldcorp (symbol NEM on New York)....
A: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., $69.82, symbol BAH on New York (Shares outstanding: 140.2 million; Market cap: $9.8 billion; www.boozallen.com), is a U.S. management and IT consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Virginia....
A: PRO Real Estate Investment Trust, $7.16, symbol PRV.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 37.3 million; Market cap: $267.1 million; www.proreit.com), owns a portfolio of 84 commercial properties across Canada representing a leasable area of over 3.7 million square feet....
A: Edwards Lifesciences, $218.55, symbol EW on New York (Shares outstanding: 208.0 million; Market cap: $44.7 billion; www.edwards.com) is focused on technologies and products that treat structural heart disease and critically ill patients....
Seasonal investment strategies study the historical performance of stocks, bonds and other asset classes during specific times of year. They then aim to benefit from those patterns. However, these strategies are based on the past and do not always work. Holding stocks with strong fundamentals—and the potential to do well whatever time of year it is—can lower this strategy’s risk....
Momentum-based investing involves buying or selling stocks with rising or falling earnings and stock prices. It’s largely unconcerned with the absence of value markers like moderate p/e ratios or high dividend yields.
It’s a strategy that some investment managers, especially hedge fund, use to create and manage portfolios that hold long positions in stocks with positive momentum and short positions in stocks with negative momentum....
It’s a strategy that some investment managers, especially hedge fund, use to create and manage portfolios that hold long positions in stocks with positive momentum and short positions in stocks with negative momentum....
The price of gold has regularly hit multi-year highs since mid-May 2019. It’s not surprising then that investment flows into gold-linked ETFs are also rising rapidly.
Trade tensions between the two largest economies in the world, the U.S. and China, changes in monetary policy, looming concerns over Brexit, market volatility, geopolitical concerns and negative interest rates have all supported demand for gold investment.
Global gold-backed ETFs had $2.6 billion U.S....
ETF managers employ various strategies to produce portfolios that have lower volatility, or risk, than the overall stock market. At the same time, they also aim to keep up with overall market gains despite the lower risk.
Below we analyze three ETFs with lower volatility portfolios....
Global ETF assets as of July 31, 2019, amounted to $5.7 trillion, spread across 7,900 ETFs; this was an increase of 19% compared to the end of 2018. These ETFs are listed on 72 exchanges in 58 countries.
Stock ETFs have attracted net-new inflows of $115 billion through the end of July 2019; this was sharply down from the $177 billion last year....