The prospect of lower rates could translate to falling yields, forcing investors to diversify their fixed income portfolios. One area that’s been seeing renewed interest is mortgage-backed securities (MBS). A data-dependent U.S. Federal Reserve may finally be seeing the economic data it needs...
It may not have been on your investment bingo card, but one of the surprising outperforming investment themes this year has been clean energy. One catalyst has been the growing electricity demands related to the rise of AI. There has been a massive...
As U.S. tech stocks slip on faltering AI investor confidence, looking to opportunities abroad could prove beneficial. The KraneShares Emerging Markets Consumer Technology Index ETF (KEMQ) increases portfolio diversification while also capturing strong consumer tech growth in emerging markets. A series of recent AI...
This week has been light on new macroeconomic data, but markets have had two clear focal points: the release of the FOMC minutes on Wednesday and Jerome Powell’s upcoming remarks at Jackson Hole on Friday. Both events have drawn intense scrutiny from investors...
To some, $1 billion of ETF net inflows is not what it used to be. The U.S. ETF industry has gathered more than $700 billion of net inflows this year and is likely to again break the $1 trillion mark. Meanwhile, the Vanguard...
Bitcoin is on a scorching run this year. Currently, it’s flirting with all-time highs. But that’s not preventing some cryptocurrency market observers from forecasting significantly higher prices. In what would be an obvious boon for ETFs such as the Coinshares Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund...