What's Really in Your Cannabis ETF? A Deeper Look at the Diverging Investment Strategies in the Cannabis ETF MarketBy Victor Schramm, CFS® As a Portland, Oregon-based firm, I get asked a lot about Cannabis Industry investments. After all, we've been at or near the epicenter of the so-called Green Rush for years. Every once in a [...]
Asia Pacific ETF's Have Very Different Portfolio Compositions The top ETF's in this sector are taking very different stances on weightings of various countries. I wrote my earliest review of this segment in 2017, and this is an update to that story for the Spring of 2019. Interestingly, the field of top competitors has become [...]
Top Exchange Traded Funds are still Invested in Illinois The largest Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) in the country are still holding the debt of Illinois. Technically speaking, all 50 states have always had Investment Grade bonds. That is, their bonds are rated at or above Standard & Poor's BBB rating (Moody's Baa rating). ETF's have [...]
Asia Pacific ETF's Have Very Different Portfolio Compositions The top ETF's in this sector are taking very different stances on weightings of various countriesAsia Pacific ETF's Asia Pacific ETF's are Exchange Traded Funds that invest in equities based in the Pacific basin. They're often lumped into one broader category by investment advisors, but as we [...]
