This weekly update tracks some of the largest cryptocurrencies by market share: bitcoin and ether. We’ve also included XRP, as it was one of the largest cryptocurrencies when this series began. According to Wikipedia, a cryptocurrency is “a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to [...]...

Active ETF strategies have stormed the scene over the past year and are growing at a dizzying pace. First-quarter net inflows into actively managed ETFs surged past the previous record to $66 billion. That accounts for roughly one third of all first-quarter ETF flows despite comprising a little less than 9% of the entire ETF [...] The post Active...

Rising Treasury yields continue to push the prospect of rate cuts farther out into the year. However, a recent pullback might be an early sign that Treasuries could be rising, which should clear the pathway for bullish opportunities in leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Investor behavior may already be reflecting bullishness after the two-year...

The Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) is higher by 3.74% year-to-date. However, the widely followed benchmark is off 4.83% over the past week. The decline could give some investors pause about the near-term fates of some of the index’s high-flying holdings. On the other hand, some experts see more upside on the way for some marquee names [...] The post Some...

Stubbornly high inflation and a solid economy — the former a negative, the latter a positive — may be conspiring to force the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates higher for longer. Entering this year, the consensus was the central bank would pare rates multiple times in 2024. More recently, market observers have dialed back [...] The post Inflation,...

At February’s Exchange conference, New Frontier Advisors Chief Investment Officer Robert Michaud talked about his firm and the coming market challenges. “We are a firm that was founded based on a research idea for doing portfolio optimization better — building more diversified portfolios, and managing the risk and return trade-off for an uncertain future,”...