David Dierking is a freelance writer focusing primarily on ETFs, mutual funds, dividend income strategies and retirement planning. He has spent more than 20 years in the financial services industry and his background includes experience in investment management, portfolio analytics and asset/liability management at both BMO Financial Group and Strong Capital Management. He has written for Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool, ETF Trends, ETF Daily News and Investopedia and was also included in the panel for ETFReference.com’s “101 ETF Investing Tips from the Experts”. He has a B.A. in Finance from Michigan State University and lives in Wisconsin with his wife and two daughters.
By Dave Dierking, CFA
WisdomTree is a top 10 ETF issuer, but it’s making a few changes to its product lineup. In...
The ETF marketplace has been trending towards lower and lower fees for some time now, but it’s...
As almost every corner of the global economy evolves, the ETF industry has responded to give...
With interest rates expected to remain subdued for the foreseeable future and the economy showing...
Next-generation technology has been a hot theme for a few years now. Whether it’s artificial...
The new S&P 500 communication services sector officially debuted back in September and with...
UPDATED ON January 16, 2019: Direxion Launches 10 New Funds
Five fixed-income ETFs appear on this...
Active management rules the day as four of the six new ETF launches use it to execute factor and...
The arrival of the year-end holiday season has not slowed ETF issuers from continuing to bring...
For as much as we hear about a potential boom in socially responsible investing, it hasn’t really...
Invesco is already the fourth largest ETF issuer with assets of more than $190 billion, but it’s...
Socially responsible investing has been around for years, but it has yet to really gain much...
The wave of new smart- beta ETF offerings continues into this week as no fewer than eight...
Vanguard has slowly been expanding its lineup of ETFs designed to provide investors with total...
Several of the ETFs launched over the past couple of weeks could be considered additions to their...
ETF issuers continue to hit the gas on fast-growth ETF offerings thanks to investors’ insatiable...
Smart-beta strategies capture the ETF limelight this week with several new offerings arriving on...
If there’s one thing that most market watchers agree on, it’s that the brick-and-mortar retail...
Dorsey Wright has been lending its investment expertise to ETF issuers for over a decade.
Robotics ETFs have cooled off a bit in 2018 following last year’s incredible run. Asset flows...
It’s not often that you get a week of new ETF launches as thematically diverse as this one.
Bitcoin may be ice cold as an investment right now, but blockchain, the technology underlying...
Over the past year or so, we’ve seen an increasing number of industry big names lending their...
The technology of the future has its fingerprints all over this week’s batch of new ETFs.
The ETF industry is well known for its low-cost index funds, but that hasn’t stopped some...
Pacer Financial is best known for its Trendpilot and cash flow-focused family of ETFs.
The tech of tomorrow has become a popular place for ETF issuers to look for the next big idea.
While inflation isn’t a huge concern in the current economic environment, it should always be on...
The S&P 500 is known as one of the most iconic benchmarks of the equities markets.
Bond ETFs take center stage this week, as a pair of insurance giants continue to expand their ETF...
The driverless car revolution is the “next big thing” in tech, so it’s no surprise that the ETF...
ETF providers have been paying increasing attention to the socially conscious investing space.
...
A little over a week after iShares dropped their new “Evolved” line of ETFs on the marketplace,...
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming something that impacts our everyday lives.
It’s being...
Barclays has enjoyed some success with its exchange-traded note (ETN) roster, amassing roughly $3...
With the ETF industry continuing to add hundreds of billions of dollars in new assets, a curious...
Investing in companies that develop robotics-related technology or artificial intelligence...
Vanguard has become a titan of the fund industry using a pretty simple strategy – focus on...
ETF providers have come up with any number of ways to slice up an index. Some are split between...
Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, continues to be all the rage on Wall Street.
With...
A lot of investors want to get in on the next-generation technology revolution, and ETF issuers...
The SEC has essentially shut down all bitcoin ETFs, but that doesn’t mean that the technology...
Political and social issues are showing up more and more in the ETF space.
Socially responsible...
The ETF industry didn’t slow down in the traditionally slow period between Christmas and New Year...
Triple-leveraged ETFs – funds that mainly use futures to ratchet up the exposure to a specific...
ARK Investment Management has been one of the ETF marketplace’s biggest winners this year. The...
There are many ways to create a dividend investing strategy. You can target long-term payers,...
The pace of new ETF launches finally slows this week, following a busy November that has seen the...
If you’re a fan of factor ETFs, this is your week!
BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are the three dominant players in the ETF space. Together,...
Momentum factor investing has been the undisputed winner of 2017, more than doubling the returns...
It was just a few short weeks ago that Point Bridge Capital brought the GOP Stock Tracker ETF (...
Since it launched its first ETF back in 2009, Charles Schwab has become one of the lowest cost...
As equities keep reaching new highs in one of the calmest markets in history, ETF issuers this...
With more than 2,000 ETFs available to investors, just about every niche, sector and market have...
This week’s menu of new fund offerings covers just about every major category of ETF, including...
The pace of new ETF issues picked up this week with a mix of the familiar and the not so...
Most of the focus in the ETF industry goes to passively-managed index funds since they attract...
Many ETFs use the popular market-cap method of weighting components within the fund, with the...
Transamerica, the financial services provider perhaps best known for its insurance products, also...
The recent spate of new smart-beta products slows down this week, while several new...
The new fund launches came fast and furious this past week with more than a dozen new products...
The ETF industry continues to gain billions of dollars in new inflows and fund providers continue...
While every trade is ultimately about executing a buy or sell order, the order type helps execute...
Options are great trading tools because they give you the means to benefit from almost any market...
When using options to generate additional income, covered calls tend to get utilized more often...
With Treasury yields on the rise, the list of choices for investors seeking to increase their...
While dividend and bond investing remain perhaps the most familiar methods of generating weekly...
Options contracts have become popular tools that can be used by traders for a number of different...
A long-running debate in asset allocation circles is how much of a portfolio an investor should...
In a digital age where information moves in milliseconds and millions of participants can transact...