ETFs

“This is a watershed moment for the ETF sector,” says Todd Rosenbluth, the independent investment research firm CFRA’s Head of ETF & Mutual Fund Research. It’s also one that’s been in the works for quite some time. The Winklevoss twins, who founded the Gemini bitcoin exchange, attempted to launch a Bitcoin ETF in 2013, but […]

ETFs are one of the simplest ways for investors to diversify their exposure to a specific theme or asset class. In the early days of cryptocurrency, one of the most difficult aspects of investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies was determining how and where to buy them. Cryptocurrency ETFs make investing in Bitcoin as simple

One bitcoin ETF has been approved in the United States, although it is linked to bitcoin futures rather than the cash. ProShares, a financial firm, created the first exchange-traded fund tied to bitcoin on October 19. The BITO ETF (ticker: BITO) does not invest in bitcoin directly. Is there a bitcoin stock or exchange-traded fund?

ETF dividends are taxed based on the length of time the investor has owned the ETF. The payout is deemed a “qualified dividend” if the investor held the fund for more than 60 days before the dividend was paid, and it is taxed at a rate ranging from 0% to 20%, depending on the investor’s

Bonds are loans to businesses, governments, and other entities. Investors make a loan to the company and later receive interest on their investment. Bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are fixed-income funds that allow investors to profit from interest payments, unlike stock ETFs. Many bond ETFs track benchmarks like the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, while others

International investment is a good method to diversify your stock portfolio. While international ETFs have trailed behind US markets in terms of returns, they offer diversification benefits because they are less connected with US equities. Should I invest in international exchange-traded funds (ETFs)? Adding overseas equities, stock exchange-traded funds (ETFs), or international mutual funds to

Many of the same advantages of a conventional ETF apply to inverse ETFs, including ease of use, lower fees, and tax advantages. The advantages of inverse ETFs come from the additional options for placing negative wagers. Short selling assets is not possible for everyone who does not have access to a trading or brokerage account.

Investors can profit from a falling market without having to short any securities using inverse ETFs. Speculative traders and investors looking for tactical day trades against their respective underlying indices might look at inverse ETFs. An inverse ETF that tracks the inverse performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, for example, would lose 1%

Compounding isn’t always a bad thing for a mutual fund’s performance. Let’s say a double-leveraged fund increases by 10% three days in a row. It would yield a 33.1 percent return. If the index increased 5% on each of those days, the leveraged three-day return would be more than double the index’s 15.8 percent return.

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are stocks that track assets, indices, or sectors and trade like stocks. Most securities, including ETFs, are subject to a 25% maintenance margin requirement under FINRA rules. For leveraged long ETFs, the maintenance requirement is 25 percent multiplied by the amount of leverage employed, as long as the leverage does not exceed