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Guide To Ten Great ETFs Yielding 7% or More (REM, PBP, NLR, MORT, BDCL, HYLD,...
Eric Dutram: In this ultra low rate environment, investors seeking current income have duly turned their attention to products that are dividend focused or to those products that pay high yields in any...
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5 High Yield, Low Volatility ETF Plays (KBWD, PSK, REM, SDIV, MLPY)
Stoyan Bojinov: Of course, many high yielding asset classes come with considerable risk, and considering only the return opportunity could be a foolish move in the current environment. To put all the...
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Is The Panic Over For Mortgage REIT ETFs? (REM, MORT, MORL, NLY, AGNC)
Eric Dutram: Thanks to ultra low yields, investors were forced to look to equities for their current income needs. While dividend-focused investments in sectors like staples and utilities were and...
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Precious Metals, Treasury and mREIT ETFs In A QE3 World (GLD, DBP, JJP, REM,...
Eric Dutram: After much deliberation, the Federal Reserve finally announced the third round of quantitative easing or QE3, in an attempt to facilitate consumption in the economy thereby creating more...
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REITs Are Offering Investors Attractive Dividend and Capital Appreciation...
David Fabian: Whenever I hear the phrase “low volatility” mentioned, I rarely think about the real estate sector that underwent tremendous price compression during the 2008 financial crisis. However,...
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Why High Yield ETFs Have Stumbled And How To Play Them
David Fabian: Investors have been diligently seeking to increase their yields all year while continuing to take more and more risk to boost their income streams. This phenomenon has been spurred by the...
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Is The Plunge Over For Mortgage REIT ETFs?
In investors’ search for high yielding securities, many have taken a closer look at the mortgage REIT (mREIT for short) market for exposure. This segment has benefited from low short-term rates and...
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Three ETFs To Avoid As Interest Rates Rise
Although it looks as if the Fed will not taper that quickly, yields on bonds have already risen. Plus, with solid economic data, the likelihood of a scaling back of QE has increased, putting many...
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Time To Invest In REIT ETFs?
David Fabian: Everyone knows the old adage that you should never try to catch a falling knife and I have always applied that same philosophy to investing. When a stock or ETF appears to be in a...
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The Trend Is Reversing For Mortgage REIT ETFs
Over the past few months, mortgage REITs (mREITs) had been under immense pressure due to market concerns relating to the Fed’s tightening of monetary policy. The stress situation resulted in soaring...
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The Short-Term Looks Very Rocky For Mortgage REIT ETFs
Events were starting to shape up quite nicely for the embattled mortgage REIT market, thanks to a very dovish Federal Reserve. This accommodative Fed looked to help keep the spread wide between short...
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Four Sector ETFs To Watch In Q4
The latest sector ranks are out, and some interesting trends are starting to develop. Several segments have moved from ‘sell’ ranks up to ‘buys’, while others which were once looking strong have fallen...
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Mortgage REIT ETFs In Focus On Renewed Taper Concerns
With a deluge of positive economic data including ISM surveys, better-than-expected advance third-quarter GDP numbers and a surprising pickup in U.S. job growth in October – all braving the much-hyped...
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High Yield Hits And Misses
David Fabian: One of the themes for 2013 has been the rotation in high yield asset classes that has seen money change direction based on the prevailing sentiment in interest rates. Income investors...
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ETF Income Investing Ideas For 2014
David Fabian: In the first two articles of this three-part series on 2014 ETF income investing, I touched on my thoughts for fixed-income and dividend paying equities in the New Year. I generally...
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3 Sector ETFs Braving The Market Slump
Much to the surprise of many analysts, interest rates in the U.S. have seen a downward motion in 2014 with the 10-year Treasury yield tumbling 13 basis points to 2.61% over the past one month. While...
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Trouble Ahead For Mortgage REIT ETFs?
Unlike last year, 2014 has seen a pretty decent performance from the mortgage REIT sector. Contrary to the popular belief that escalation of Fed taper will result in rising rates, interest rates have...
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Overlooked ETFs With Double-Digit Yield
Sweta Killa: Though the broad U.S. equity markets have been hitting multiple highs, concerns have cropped up over its continued bullish run in the second half of the year. This is primarily due to...
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10% Yields Can Be Safe If You Choose mREITs
Lawrence Meyers: mREITs are interest rate sensitive, but also trading at 52-week lows. When Fed chiefs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen promised the markets that interest rates would stay low for a long...
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Observations Of Risk, Reward, and Expectations Using ETFs
David Fabian: The concept of symmetry when it comes to risk is something that most investors overlook. I have found that most people hone in on one aspect of an investment that looks attractive or...
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