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Massive Amounts Of Money Are Leaving The US For Europe

Posted on May 27, 2015May 27, 2015 by Matt Thalman

SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is one of, if not the largest ETF's based on net asset value, which currently sits at $177 billion. That should though come as no surprise since the ETF mimics the S&P 500 and is quite frankly the easiest way for investors to diversify their portfolio in stocks, while taking on no more risk than necessary. I often recommended this to others and refer to it as the best one stop shop for investors, regardless of their goals.

But recently, we have been seeing large amounts of money moving out of SPY. January 20th nearly $4 billion was pulled out, during two days, January 28th and 29th, more than $5 billion was removed, $2.4 billion on February 20th, another $2.3 billion on March 20th, another $9 billion from March 26th to the 30th, April 20th another $4 billion, from April 28th to May 1st $8 billion, and May 19th $3.3 billion was pulled out. Continue reading "Massive Amounts Of Money Are Leaving The US For Europe" →

2 Small And 1 Big Mistakes ETF Investors Make

Posted on May 22, 2015May 22, 2015 by Matt Thalman

In life we all make mistakes. Some are small and don't really matter much, others are larger and the consequences last longer. When it comes to investing, the same holds true. And since mistakes will most certainly be made both in life and in investing, regardless of how careful we are, in an attempt to help you make fewer mistakes when it comes to ETF investing I have put together a list of the top three biggest mistakes ETF investors make. Two of them will be minor mistakes, while the last will be a big one that could substantially hurt an investor's long-term performance.

Not looking at Funds Holdings

While the number of ETF's having grown over the past few years is great, giving investors hundreds of options to choose from, it has also caused a lot of confusion. There are now ETF's that track all the indexes, ever industry, commodities, international markets, futures, bonds; the list can go on and on and although just because an ETF has certain name, doesn't mean that is the end all of what it invests in or that its holdings are not overweight certain assets compared to the rest of its holdings. I have written about this problem in the past, pointing out that a lot of funds are massively overweight Apple Inc. (AAPL). Continue reading "2 Small And 1 Big Mistakes ETF Investors Make" →

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

Posted on May 16, 2015May 15, 2015 by Matt Thalman

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

Posted on April 29, 2015April 28, 2015 by Matt Thalman

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" →

Did You Know the Dow Jones Has Crushed the S&P 500 Over The Past 30 Years

Posted on March 30, 2015March 30, 2015 by Matt Thalman

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) has been hated on by investors for years. Most believe it is inferior to the S&P 500 Index (^GSPC) due to its price weighting formulation as opposed to market capitalization weighting, the fact that it only consists of 30 as opposed to 500 stocks, and until just recently it didn’t even hold the largest company in the world, Apple (AAPL) in it, just to name a few.

But for all its flaws it was shocking to me to see a comparison of the Dow's performance to that of the S&P 500 over different time frames. Continue reading "Did You Know the Dow Jones Has Crushed the S&P 500 Over The Past 30 Years" →

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