Understanding Fund  Distributions

Understanding Fund
Distributions

Understanding how distributions work is essential for all mutual fund shareholders. Dividends and capital gains directly affect a fund’s net asset value (NAV), which can be alarming to investors if they don’t understand total return. In this blog, we will answer four...
The Marketing Magic  of Income Funds

The Marketing Magic
of Income Funds

One of the hottest trends today revolves around ETFs that pay out a high dividend. This is often framed as Income, Yield, Dividends, or, more recently, terms like Premium, Buy Write and Option-Based Income. Regardless of terminology, launching high income ETFs using...
Rate Cut  Narratives

Rate Cut
Narratives

Naturally, in times of high inflation, the Federal Reserve’s actions dominate media coverage, especially leading up to interest rate decisions. The federal funds rate rose from 0.25% in March 2022, to 5.5% in July of 2023, and stayed there for over a year. As of...
Expect  the Unexpected

Expect
the Unexpected

Whether it is a virus that shuts down the globe or a single-day decline in stocks of more than 20%, we must expect the unexpected. In both markets and life, it is remarkable how often the unlikely happens. Usually, these events are described as outliers, which happen...
Indicator  Roulette

Indicator
Roulette

The first known reference to “Russian Roulette” was in a classic novel published in 1840. Merriam-Webster defines the game as, “An act of bravado consisting of spinning the cylinder of a revolver loaded with one cartridge, pointing the muzzle at one’s own head,...