Below are our latest blog posts for the week of February 9th.  Click on the links below to view the full article.

Bond funds may be the least exciting category of our three-sleeved portfolio, but also one of the most critical to get right as global central banks continue to tinker with interest rates and stimulus measures. This asset class includes numerous sector, duration, credit, tax exposure, and hedging options to incorporate in your portfolio. In addition, fixed-income plays a vital role in smoothing out the volatility of risk assets such as stocks and alternative income solutions.

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UBS just launched their latest leveraged exchange-traded note (ETN) designed to capitalize on the opportunities in small cap dividend stocks. By my count, that now makes four diversified investment vehicles in the UBS product suite that are geared towards common equity dividend paying indexes with an underlying leverage component.

With the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) trading in a wide range since the beginning of the year, many momentum investors may be searching for signs of life in alternative areas of the market.   Just because the broad measure of U.S. stocks is waffling sideways, doesn’t mean that there aren’t suitable ETF candidates to add to your watch list at this juncture.

The following funds are just a few of the ETFs I have been monitoring over the past several weeks as they show positive technical divergences from their peers.

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The fixed-income markets have been an interesting landscape for multiple themes to develop across numerous sectors, durations, and credit profiles. Momentum traders have been chasing the run higher in long-term Treasuries, while value-minded investors have been stalking the risk to reward setup in high yield, TIPs, or emerging market bonds.

P.S. Did you know our core actively managed ETF portfolio minimums start at just $100,000?

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