Every week, the analysts here at DWA organize and write approximately 11 feature stories focusing within the inventories of multiple ETF providers.
Every week, the analysts here at DWA organize and write approximately 11 feature stories focusing within the inventories of multiple ETF providers. These articles can be found within the weekly ETF reports we conduct for those ETF families with which we provide guided model-based solutions. The weekly reports can be accessed from the Research Menu, but as of this week we will also compile a handful of those stories, which we feel are particularly relevant. We hope that this will serve as an "in case you missed it..." sort of section, where you can quickly access timely ETF features in a comprehensive fashion each week. We will include a link to the report along with a brief abstract summarizing our discussion within the respective features. This week's compilation is below.
Guggenheim Spotlight Fund: Guggenheim China Small Cap ETF (HAO)
International Equities remains the most improved asset class on a year-to-date basis, led by Emerging Europe and Developed Asia. One area of strength in particular within the International space comes from China-related funds, which currently have an average group score of 5.02, trailing just India-related funds (5.04) in the non-US view on the Asset Class Group Scores page. One fund that has participated to the upside is the Guggenheim China Small Cap ETF HAO. HAO is up over 23% year-to-date, compared to the MSCI World ex-US Index MSCIWORLDXUS, up 14.73%. With yesterday’s intra… (Read More)
Strength in Clean Energy and Energy Infrastructure: GRID
While the broad Energy sector continues to struggle because of weakness in Oil, the clean energy and energy infrastructure sectors have displayed signs of strength. For example, in the First Trust Matrix Review section of this report, notice how the Energy funds are ranked at the bottom, as the First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund FXN, First Trust Natural Gas FCG, and the First Trust NASDAQ Oil & Gas ETF FTXN, are ranked in the bottom three positions within the matrix and are all scoring below 1. Meanwhile, the First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy... (Read More).
The Strength in the Healthcare Sector: PTH
The broad Healthcare sector is the most improved group within the sector level of DALI, up more than 50 buy signals year-to-date. The sector was able to make its way back into the top 4 rankings by the end of June, and was thus added to the Power4 model last month. It was able to maintain its margin of leadership over other sectors... (Read More).
