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Leverage -- A Double-Edged Sword: Many index-based ETFs use double or triple leverage, meaning they seek to achieve a return that is a two or three times their index's performance. But doubling ...
BMO SmartFolio is a digital investment management service offered by Canada’s Bank of Montreal.Broadly referred to as a robo-advisor, the service allows investors to answer a series of questions online about their investment goals, time horizon and risk tolerance, then are recommended a model portfolio made up of index-tracking exchange-traded funds based on the investor’s profile, managed ...
Under the assumption of normality of returns, an active risk of x per cent would mean that approximately 2/3 of the portfolio's active returns (one standard deviation from the mean) can be expected to fall between +x and -x per cent of the mean excess return and about 95% of the portfolio's active returns (two standard deviations from the mean) can be expected to fall between +2x and -2x per ...
Benjamin Braun [36] suggests that, since American stock ownership is concentrated on few big asset managers which are very diversified and do not have a direct interest in the performance of the companies, this emerging "asset manager capitalism" is distinct from the earlier shareholder primacy. The asset managers usually vote with company ...
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are all the rage this year, as more investors flock to the opportunities they provide. The trend is leaving some to wonder just what ETFs are, and what the fuss is all ...
The ongoing expansion of the ETF industry continues to bring previously hard-to-reach corners of the global financial market to the fingertips of mainstream investors and institutional money ...
Therefore, the ETF “replicates” the fund's it is tied to performance. In this process the ETF manager enters a swap contract with an investment bank that agrees to pay the index return in exchange for a small fee.
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