3 Reasons To Turn Your Portfolio Green And 3 ETF's To Help You Do It

Matt Thalman - INO.com Contributor - ETFs


While the most basic reasons to why we invest are simply; to make money, most investors have secondary reasons on why they invest in one company or another such as they believe in the product, they like what management stands for or in some cases the investor feels a moral or social responsibility to support a particular company or even industry. If you are one of the latter types, than I am sure you already understand the importance of investing in green energy stocks. If you are not, let me try to convince you with 3 reasons why you should be investing in green energy, before I tell you 3 ETF's that you can buy today that will turn your portfolio green with one single buy.

3 Reasons you should turn your portfolio Green

Reason number is that green energy is the only true sustainable form of energy over the long run. Not only that, but over the long-term, green energy is the only form of energy that can be truly unlimited. With any carbon form of energy there is a limited supply. Continue reading "3 Reasons To Turn Your Portfolio Green And 3 ETF's To Help You Do It"

Top 3 Dividend ETF's Every Dividend Investor Should Consider Owning

Matt Thalman - INO.com Contributor - ETFs


With an explosion of ETF's over the past few years, finding quality, goal specific, industry or type focused funds can be very challenging. With dividend investing growing in popularity, today we will be looking at 3 ETF's that focus on dividends. Two will be more focused on investors looking for high yields while the third will be more traditional and offer the dividend investor safety, security and a solid yield.

So, let's get right to it.

The first pick is the Arrow Dow Jones Global Yield ETF (GYLD). The GYLD is a high yielding ETF, currently boosting a 7.67% dividend yield, which focuses on finding and investing in the 150 highest yielding investable securities in the world. The ETF holds both stocks and bonds and that ratio currently sits at a 60/40 split. The ETF's top 3 holdings include Whiting USA Trust II (WHZ), CVR Partners, LP (UAN) and Alon USA Partners, LP (ALDW), of which two are oil and gas partnerships. Continue reading "Top 3 Dividend ETF's Every Dividend Investor Should Consider Owning"