Jim Woods
Let’s Quarantine Like Isaac Newton
Jim Woods discusses what Isaac Newton did when he was quarentined due to an outbreak of bubonic plague and explains how we can learn from his example.
The Largest and Most Liquid Domestic Internet ETF
(Note: Today’s ETF Talk is the second in a series of funds designed to profit from the “stay-at-home” trend in COVID-19 America.) The First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund (NYSEARCA: FDN) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before the fund’s fees and expenses, of the Dow Jones Internet Composite […]
Happiness in the Age of COVID-19
How does one find happiness in the age of COVID-19? I mean, if you are even the slightest sort of thinking and feeling person, you have no doubt been more than just a little sad these days, given that we’re living during the worst global pandemic in more than a century. Yet, if you aspire […]
This ‘Stay-At-Home’ Tech Fund Offers Targeted Exposure
(Note: Today’s ETF Talk is the first in a series of funds designed to profit from the “stay-at-home” trend in COVID-19 America.) There is an emerging trend of relatively new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are looking to capitalize on specific investment ideas targeting growth companies with strong potential. One of these funds, launched in 2016, […]
The Other Side of the Coronavirus
Every time I turn around The man tries to get me down I just can’t see your face I’m blinded by the sun, living on the run And I can’t remember this place Won’t ya take me to the other side… –Ryan Bingham, “The Other Side” I went to the store on Saturday. I was […]
An Infrastructure Fund for a V-Shaped Oil Recovery
(Note: Today’s ETF Talk is the third in our series on funds that are likely to do well when the market begins a “V-shaped” recovery.) The Global X MLP ETF (MLPA) invests in some of the largest, most liquid midstream energy master limited partnerships (MLPs) to give investment results that generally align with the price and yield […]