The ETF Report

How did market participants react to the ECB’s 1.1 trillion euro QE-styled asset purchase plan?

Never mind how the U.S. stock market is posting modest year-to-date losses close to 2%.

What does the optimal investment portfolio look like?

Stock market volatility is frequently portrayed as an evil force that all investors should strive to avoid.

Your investment portfolio is nothing more than a reflection of you.

After gaining five consecutive years and gaining nine out the past 10 years, the U.S. stock market is on a roll.

Is consumer credit quality deteriorating?

Energy stocks slid 8.7% last year and was the only S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:VOO) industry sector to lose value in 2014.

All investment portfolios are comparable to a novel, where each individual chooses their own personal genre and classification.

What is diversification?

Last year, Warren Buffett said he would direct the trustees of his estate to put 90% of his remaining assets in an S&P 500 index fund and 10% in short-term government bonds.

The financial services industry’s bias toward long-term investing as the magic formula to the problems that face the individual investor is wrong and misleading.

Market correlations explain to us the similarity in performance and behavior by different types of assets.

Gold has it bad and that ain’t good.

What are the hallmarks of a well-built investment portfolio?

Never mind the outstanding performance that long-term U.S. Treasury ETFs (NYSEARCA:TMF) delivered last year, ETF investors are bailing on bonds.

How can a person tell the difference between a healthy and unhealthy investment portfolio?

Back to the future!

Last week we told you how dwindling stock market volatility (NYSEARCA:VIXY) and the insatiable appetite for high risk debt (NYSEARCA:JNK) is characterizing the market’s latest episode of fearless risk taking.