Endowment Wealth ManagementTM In The News
Prateek Mehrotra, Chief Investment Officer of ETF-MS and Endowment Wealth ManagementTM was recently quoted in Institutional Investor Magazine in an article by Trang Ho, titled “iBillionaire ETF Offers Activist Exposure in a Passive Vehicle”. iBillionaire is an ETF that tracks and seeks to invest in the stock holdings of 21 billionaire investors such as Warren […]
Growth of Liquid Alternatives
The proliferation of liquid alternative strategies is causing many advisors to take so much time away from servicing their clients that it has become a distraction. As the saying goes, you’ll spend 90% of your time looking at alternatives, and it will make up just 10% of your portfolio. There was nearly $162 billion in […]
Reasons ETFs are inexpensive
The ETF industry is growing quickly, and ETF.com projects the $1.7 trillion market of U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds will grow exponentially in the next several years, thanks to increasing interest among both retail and institutional investors. Why? Because ETFs have many inherent traits that allow them to stand out relative to competing mutual funds, and cost […]
PowerShares QQQ ETF Celebrates its 15 Year Anniversary
Invesco PowerShares is proud to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of the PowerShares QQQ™ Portfolio (ticker: QQQ). QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index®, which is comprised of the 100 largest, most innovative domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market. PowerShares QQQ invests in some of the world’s most revolutionary companies across the industry […]
What are the Fiduciary Rules?
Every plan must have a fiduciary(s) responsible for the operation of the plan. A fiduciary can be identified as a person or as an office, such as a company’s board of directors. Many plans have several fiduciaries, each being responsible for a different aspect of the plan’s management. Fiduciaries can be held liable if they […]
Volatility 101: The basics of options trading
Options can be a wonderful tool to help an investor with portfolio hedging, to create extra income, even to speculate on a market trend. But before you can trade options on the stock price of Apple or Tesla, you have to understand the basics of volatility. To do that, we’re going to break down volatility […]
Americans Continue to Face Saving Challenges, Survey Finds
According to a survey released last month by America Saves and the American Savings Education Council (ASEC), just 35% of Americans feel they are making good or excellent progress in saving money. Nearly two-thirds (63%) say they’re making fair or no progress. However, nearly 7 out of 10 (68%) say they are spending less than […]
What is Smart Beta?
There has been a lot of talk recently about smart beta —and some of you may be wondering what it is. First, let’s take a quick look at what defines “beta.” Beta is a measurement of the volatility of an investment compared to the market. An investment with a beta of 1 is, in theory, delivering the same volatility […]
Imagining a world without ETFs
Exchange traded funds hit the scene in 1993 and have since revolutionized the investing world. The low cost and transparent structure of ETFs has resonated well with investors, as the industry as a whole has accumulated more than $1.5 trillion in total assets. We thought it would be fun to imagine a world where ETFs […]
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