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BMO COVERED CALL CANADIAN BANKS ETF $20.73 (Toronto symbol ZWB) holds shares of Canada’s six largest banks (CIBC, TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank and National Bank) either directly or through units of the BMO Equal Weight Banks Index ETF.


The fund started up in January 2011....

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed shares prices for many healthcare stocks—and the ETFs that hold them—to today’s all-time highs. Despite that, the underlying growth trends remain strong as the global population grows older and emerging economies spend more on healthcare....

A: BlackRock Inc., $921.04, symbol BLK on New York (Shares outstanding: 152.2 million; Market cap: $140.8 billion; www.blackrock.com), is one of the world’s largest publicly traded investment management firms.

The company manages $9.5 trillion of assets on behalf of institutions and individuals through a variety of equity, fixed-income, cash-management, alternative-investment and advisory products.

BlackRock’s global ETF (exchange-traded fund) and stock-index investing business accounts for 63% of its overall assets under management (AUM)....

INVESCO SOLAR ETF, $86.03, is a buy for aggressive investors. The ETF (New York symbol TAN; buy or sell through brokers) tracks solar-related companies (including technology firms and utilities) listed on global exchanges.


The fund’s top holdings are Enphase Energy (U.S.: home solar systems) at 11.4%; SolarEdge Technologies (Israel: solar-power batteries), 11.1%; Xinyi Solar (China: solar panels), 8.0%; First Solar (China: solar panels), 6.8%; and Sunrun (U.S.: solar panels), 6.0%....

The Bank of Canada cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.25% in early 2020. That was meant to support economic activity after COVID-19 hit. Whether the bank continues to hold that rate steady, cuts it further or raises it depends on Canada’s economic growth and employment levels....

ISHARES S&P/TSX REIT INDEX ETF, $20.33, is a hold. The ETF (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) lets investors tap all 21 Canadian real estate investment trusts in the S&P/TSX REIT Index.


Investors pay an MER of 0.61%, and the REIT fund gives you a 2.7% yield....

Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S. unless those funds are also registered with provincial securities commissions. (Moreover, some Canadian mutual funds are only available in a limited number of provinces.)


Investors in this country can, however, buy exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, listed on U.S....

This month we look at a space exploration ETF from ARK Invest that targets rising investor interest in space and related stocks. We also look at an ETF from Horizons that invests globally in semiconductor (computer chip) companies.


ARK Invest recently launched the ARK Space Exploration and Innovation ETF $20.78 (New York symbol ARKX).


The fund aims to select companies that launch or make satellites and/or launch vehicles, or that stand to benefit from space exploration technologies such as precision agriculture, Internet service providers, drone operators and so on.


The ETF invests globally, but the bulk of the assets are allocated to U.S....

Ireland was once known as the Celtic Tiger for the high economic growth rates it achieved between 1995 and 2007. However, the global financial crisis of 2008 to 2009 set the country back significantly. Growth only returned several years later. Still, the country’s low corporate tax rates, duty-free access to the valuable European marketplace, and a well-educated workforce remain attractive to large, multinational corporations....

The year 2020 was a strong one for e-commerce as the pandemic forced consumers and businesses to increase their use of online transactions. However, this was an acceleration of a trend that has been developing for the past decade—and while growth may slow down as shoppers return to the malls, e-commerce will very likely continue to grow steadily....