ETF Investors in Canada May Have Timed the Market Just Right

ETF Investors in Canada May Have Timed the Market Just Right

Investors in Canadian markets might have been on to something last year. They piled into fixed-income and cash ETFs in an effort to seek shelter even as equity markets soared to levels unseen in a … Continue reading at msn.com

A New Long-Term Bull Market In Wheat

With the trade war between the U.S. and China in the process of cooling off, the market is pricing in the likelihood of a rebound in the emerging markets in 2020. Improvement in the emerging markets … Continue reading at seekingalpha.com

Broad Market ETF (ITOT) Hits New 52-Week High

For investors seeking momentum, iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF ITOT is probably on radar. The fund just hit a 52-week high and is up roughly 25.6% from its 52-week low price of … Continue reading at nasdaq.com

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5 ETF Predictions For 2020

I'm claiming five for five on my 2018 ETF predictions. Last year? Four out of five, yet I still think the one miss will pan out longer term. So, what's in store for 2020? I'm intentionally avoiding … Continue reading at finance.yahoo.com

Market Corrections Obliterate Leveraged ETF Returns

If you are holding a leveraged ETF and you aren’t losing sleep over this, then you should probably take a look at another chart. This one shows the total value of all publicly traded equities versus U … Continue reading at seekingalpha.com

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How This High Dividend ETF Adds Another Layer Of Protection

The dividend yield on the S&P 500 is just 1.74%. Ten-year Treasuries are barely more impressive at 1.87%, so it’s no wonder that plenty of investors will revisit high dividend stocks and exchange … Continue reading at marketwatch.com

5 Winning ETF Strategies for 2020

Wall Street registered the best performance since 2013 last year and continues its hot streak to start the New Year, overcoming the Middle East hurdle. Notably, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq reached new … Continue reading at nasdaq.com

Top ETF Picks For 2020: Innovator S&P 500 Power Buffer ETF (PJAN)

In the case of the Power Buffer ETF, investors can earn up to 8.5% on the S&P 500 during the outcome period (the case of PJAN, from January 1st through December 31st) while protecting against the … Continue reading at thestreet.com

An Important Catalyst For This Bank ETF

the largest ETF dedicated to regional bank equities, gained 27.4% last year. While that lagged broader benchmarks, the performance was still impressive when considering the Federal Reserve cut … Continue reading at finance.yahoo.com

The Stock Market Rally Won't Die. Here's How to Ride It -- and Protect Yourself Against a Fall.

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A remarkable 54-minute film featuring some of the world’s top economists and academics and demonstrating:
* how the claims of active fund managers to be able to beat the market are largely a myth
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Investing for the future… It’s an issue none of can afford to ignore.

No one’s job is safe these days… How would you cope if you lost yours?

We’re all living longer too… So are you saving enough to fund 25 years or more of retirement?

Can you really afford to pay for your children or grandchildren to go to university – or help them onto the property ladder?

And what about all those holidays you promised yourself?

We entrust the vast bulk of our investments to fund managers.

Here in the UK, according to Her Majesty’s Treasury, the industry has more than four TRILLION pounds of investors’ money under management.

Fund managers invest people’s savings wherever they see fit – mainly in equities, or shares in listed companies.

They claim to be experts at making our making grow, using their expert knowledge to pick the shares that will outperform the market.

But all too often the returns they produce are considerably lower than the average return of a benchmark index like the FTSE 100 – or the S&P 500 in the States.

For veteran investment guru John Bogle, the problem is simple. Fund managers just aren’t as smart as they like to think they are.

As it means trading against the view of numerous market participants with superior information, buying or selling a security is effectively just a bet. So, whilst your fund manager might lead you to believe it’s his knowledge or intelligence that enables you to beat the market, he’s really no better than a gambler.

So, you might be lucky enough to choose the right fund manager. But you could just as easily pick the wrong one.

According to the financial services company Bestinvest, there are currently nearly ?10 billion of UK investors’ money languishing in what it calls dog funds – in other words, funds which have underperperformed their benchmark index for at least three consecutive years.

Ultimately, of course, fund managers are businesses. They exist to make money for themselves. They want our business – even if it means persuading us to invest in a fund which they themselves wouldn’t want to put their own money in.

It’s now time to look at what it actually costs us to invest.

Fund managers are, of course, businesses. And, like all business, they have overheads.

Running a big fund management company doesn’t come cheap – esepcially when top managers earn around ?2 million a year, including bonuses.

And remember, it’s you, the customer, who picks up the tab.

Ultimately, though, fund managers need to make a profit.

In fact they’e making around ?10 billion from us every year – and that’s regardless of whether or not they manage to produce a profit for us.

Part of the challenge is working out exactly what we are being charged. Investors typically use something called the annual Total Expense Ratio, or TER, to compare the cost of investing in different funds. But, the TER excludes dealing commission, stamp duty and other turnover costs that can add considerably to the expense of investing over time.

So, apart from those hidden charges, what else are we having to pay? More importantly, what sort of impact do charges have on the value of our investments?

And the bad news doesn’t stop there. Despite a marked increase in competition, management charges in the UK have been steadily rising over the last ten years.

There are some encouraging signs for consumers. The FSA’s Retail Distribution Review will require fund managers to be fairer and more transparent when it comes to charges. In the meantime, investors should be on their guard.

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