Switching Costs Matter For This Wide Moat ETF Switching costs are easy to understand. Simply stated, these are the costs incurred by a consumer or business when a brand, product, or service changed is made. In many cases, consumer products carry negligible switching costs, but in business, that’s not the case. At the corporate level, switching costs aren’t just monetary.... READ MORE » |
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It’s Time to Get Defensive With Dividends Actually, all of 2020 has been a time to identify the sturdiest dividend payers because negative payout action is proving to be an unfortunate yet prominent theme. The FlexShares Quality Dividend Defensive Index Fund (NYSEArca: QDEF) is one ETF investors can tap to avoid vulnerable dividend payers. QDEF offers dividend growth potential... READ MORE » |
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Digital Wallet Battle Is On And This ETF Is The Way to Play It The move to digital wallets is on pitting fintech giants PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) with its Venmo and Square (NYSE: SQ) with its Cash App against each other for financial services app dominance. Among ETFs, the ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA: ARKF) is the premier avenue for playing the digital wallet theme, ARKF invests in equity... READ MORE » |
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CEOs Using a Value-Investing Style Have Outperformed Those Who Don’t Some chief executive officers (CEOs) have the ability to manage a company’s operations with relative dexterity but may falter when it comes to capital allocation. For the latter skill, CEOs using a value investing style may actually lead to outperformance versus those who don’t. “I found that companies managed by CEOs who allocate... READ MORE » |
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Multi-Factor Investing Has Sector-Level Utility Multi-factor ETFs are often viewed as broad market ideas, but the strategy has applications at the sector level with one example being the John Hancock Multifactor Consumer Staples ETF (NYSEArca: JHMS). JHMS is part of an expansive lineup of multi-factor sector ETFs sponsored by John Hancock. The underlying indices’ methodology is... READ MORE » |
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