A diversified portfolio will reduce your portfolio volatility and allow you to sleep better at night. But, what does it actually mean to have a "diversified …
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Market Commentary
Reduce Portfolio Volatility
Since the S&P 500’s recent high on 9/20/2018, the S&P 500 has lost 8.47%. However, smart investors have options to reduce portfolio volatility, as there …
Smart Beta and High Yield
We’re highlighting smart beta and actively managed ETFs again this week. While still a small portion of the overall market (see the attached article), increased …
How to Choose an Benchmark – Market Indexes
We get lots of questions about indexes, specifically what are the appropriate indexes to use on the spreadsheet benchmark field. The short answer is… for US …
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A New Twists on Smart Beta
Smart beta is getting a lot of attention from the financial press and new products are coming to market daily. FastTrack is adding 20-30 a month. A great quote …
Is Passive Investing Actually Active?
Interesting article on the development of passive investment products. “There are now so many indexes that putting your money in an index-tracking fund is a …
Charting Bitcoin with FastTrack
Bitcoin is back on the front page, breaking above above the $10k mark again last week. While its a speculative asset class and typically not something a …
How are low volatility ETFs holding up?
How are low volatility ETFs holding up? Over the past 5+ years, a variety of low volatility equity ETFs have launched with rapid growth. In light of the …
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Energy MLPs – What’s the deal?
Master limited partnerships (MLPs) have been all over the news lately. Oil and natural gas are down significantly this year, and in return, MLPs have been …
Correlation Study – Investing in Fear
We had a great tech support call come in today. A long time FastTracker has been “tracking the VIX” and looking to get direct exposure to the index. He asked, …