Sentences with phrase «etf like»

I'm curious how the performance of your portfolio in the past few years has compared to an ETF like SCHD that focuses on dividend paying companies?

Start with a laddered - bond ETF like the iShares DEX Short Term Bond Index Fund (TSX: XSB) as part of your core holdings, suggests Chris Rawles, a certified financial planner with RT Mosaic.

Skip the middleman — the municipality — and look at an ETF like FTSE NAREIT Residential Index (FEZ), which tracks the residential, health care, and self - storage REITs on the market.

Mordy adds the caveat that ZDB may expose investors to more corporate issuer risk than a broad market bond ETF like BMO Aggregate Bond Index (ZAG).

While an ETF like SPY will only trade when major changes happen, equal weighted funds have to continually trim overweighted holdings to maintain the balance.

A 2x leveraged ETF like SSO would move up 4 % a day for 10 days straight and thus its ending value would be 48 % higher than its starting value.

Or if that's really too much for you, just grab a fat - yielding ETF like Vanguard Dividend Appreciation (NYSE: VIG)-- or check out the iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Plus Capped Index (NYSE: REM), which pays over 9 % thanks to its big stakes in mortgage REITs.

Strategies an investor could use to avoid major drawdowns would be to either a) abandon this type of strategy entirely when the SP 500 or another major index is below a long term moving average, or b) hedge positions with a position in SH or use short option strategies on an equity index or ETF like SPY.

For example, an ETF like BZF (Wisdom Tree Brazilian Real Strategy F) may have premiums or discounts in the 25 % range.

For someone investing in a taxable account, does it make sense to hold us - based ETF like VTI / VEA / VWO or is their Canadian equivalents preferred (ishares, horizon, etc) for some tax reasons that i do nt quite understand.

If you decide to use ETFs for your Can equities, rememer that you want low turnover, which is likely best accomplished with a broad - cap weighted ETF like XIC.

For those that do not want a market weight REIT ETF like iShares XRE then take a look at BMO's equal weight REIT ETF — ZRE.

Currently the price of crude oil is hovering around 50 $ / barrel and the corresponding ETF like USO is around 20 $ / share.

I'm looking to add to IBM, CLMS, AFL and the emerging market ETF I like.

For a commodity ETF like GLD, it is one tenth of the spot price of an ounce of gold.

Bang on CC... first thing I did when I read about this yesterday was to go see what was contained in an ETF like XCH..

Investors who bought a tech ETF like XLK would have outperformed investors who bought and held a simple S&P 500 ETF like SPY.

If you're looking for a potentially better solution for rising rates, consider an interest rate hedge bond ETF like IGHG.

Investors looking to gain an additional edge to Faber's Timing Model or other timing models that seek to capture long term trends could use additional ETFs, hedge funds (or a hedge fund replicator ETF like QAI), or a momentum strategy that Faber has written about and some others that I have profiled on my blog.

For yield, Hyman encourages investors to look overseas with an ETF like EFAD, where they can get a yield boost without as much interest rate risk as with U.S. high yield dividend funds.

If you're looking for a potentially better solution for rising rates, consider an interest rate hedge bond ETF like HYHG.

Five years isn't that long when looking at investment returns, but it does show that few actively managed funds have done better than a passive (and lower - fee) ETF like the SPDR S&P 500.

But if you already have multiple high - yield ETFs in your portfolio, then a growth - oriented ETF like VIG makes a nice complement.

How to do it: swap stock funds or individual stocks for a low volatility ETF like PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (SPLV).

The simplest way is to invest in a few ETFs, depending on your tolerance for risk; assuming you're very short - term risk tolerant you can invest almost all in a stock ETF like VOO or VTI.

You can increase your chances by using a non-leveraged short ETF like TBF or simply shorting the long ETF.

A developed countries ETF like VEA, which tracks performance of mostly large companies from Japan, Britain, European countries, Australia, South Korea, and Canada (among others)

Jettison a lower quality junk bond ETF for a higher quality investment grade corporate bond ETF like iShares Intermediate Credit (CIU).

more risk does a hybrid fund / ETF like this make sense or do you see the same dangers lurking here.

I could have bought a diversified MSCI index ETF like Vanguards MSCI International Shares (VGS or VGAD) but when I factor in my Superannuation asset allocation — mostly international shares, with a large dose of North American companies and companies exposed to Asia — I decided to confine my focus to Europe.

Trade in a lower quality stock ETF for a higher quality stock ETF like iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor (QUAL).

For investing emergency fund money, what is the difference (risk) of investing the cash in GICs vs. a bond ETF like XBB?

Instead buy a gold ETF like GLD.

When I set off looking for commodity ETFs, I thought a big diversified ETF like the ones above would be all I would need.

You could choose high - yielding Canadian stocks like the banks or BCE or just use 2 - year GICs or a short - term bond ETF like the Vanguard Canadian Short - Term Bond ETF (VSB / TSX).

Again, I'd go with a low - volatility ETF like the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Minimum Volatility ETF (EEMV / NYSE Arca).

I wonder if an ETF like Canadian Fundamental Index Fund (CRQ) may be a better choice for the Canadian market since it has a little more diversification across sectors and not quite as much in Energy / Materials than say XIU?

Why would an investor buy a complicated ETF like this when they could simply use a plain vanilla index fund?

What's the value of an ETF like this?

Also, using an ETF like iShares FTSE / Xinhua China 25 Index (NYSE: FXI) is a direct China play.

Inflation - linked bonds could be further divided among duration as well as global exposure through an ETF like WIP.

Emerging Market government bonds (If you want risk, stick to the less popular ones, like Venezuela, Argentina, Lebanon, Turkey, or just invest in a broad index ETF like EMB)

As you work to build the perfect portfolio allocation, look to include a fund or ETF like DVY in your portfolio.

What's fun is the negative leverage ETF like SDS, the double short S&P 500 ETF.

Instead, I think a well - diversified ETF like the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index, or the IBB for short, is the actually best way to gain exposure to this ultra-high growth industry.

Apart from the virtues of an ETF like TBT that can be godsend in a bond market sell - off, it's worth pulling back and looking at Treasury yields over the longer term.

If you are starting out, the easiest thing to do is to invest in a market index tracking dividend ETF like Charles Schwab's SCHD (seeks to track the Dow Jones US 100 Dividend Index) that has an expense ratio of 0.07 % or Vanguard's VIG (seeks to track the NASDAQ US Dividend Achievers Select Index) that has an expense ratio of 0.09 %.

For instance: «This wiki page tells us VWRL has about 10 % in withholding taxes paid, while for a US domiciled world - ETF like VT the withholding taxes paid would be about 3 - 4 %.

So, if you are exposed to downside risk with the dollar or with U.S. markets, turning to an ETF like LNOK may be a good idea to reduce your exposure.

That being said, a diversified ETF like TAN might fit the bill better for conservative investors.