Currency Hedging Comes At a Cost With ETFs

Currency Hedging Comes At a Cost With ETFs

Any currency volatility can send investors hunting for hedged ETFs. But the extra costs limit the appeal of currency hedging as a strategy.
If you want to buy U.S. stocks and hedge against the U.S. dollar’s movements against the Canadian dollar, you could buy a hedged… Read More

GE’s three-way breakup is now complete

Conglomerate General Electric has completed its plan, first announced in 2021, to split into three public companies.
The first stage occurred on January 3, 2023 when General Electric investors received one share of medical equipment subsidiary GE HealthCare for every three GE shares they held. Parent… Read More

Buy just one of these GE spinoffs now

Conglomerate General Electric has completed its plan, first announced in 2021, to split into three public companies: GE Aerospace (jet engines), GE Vernova (equipment for electrical power producers), and GE HealthCare (x-ray machines and MRI scanners).
All three of the stocks are up since the split… Read More

Five ETFs for five sectors (continued…)

This section is the second part of our discussion on ETFs that represent each of the five main economic sectors. Here we cover ETFs in the Consumer, Manufacturing and Finance sectors.
Please see the supplement section starting on page 49 for more information on our five-sectors… Read More

We still prefer the spinoff to its parent

The shares of industrial conglomerate General Electric have gained 55% since it decided to split into three separate firms in November 2021. The company now expects to complete the final spinoff in April 2024. While the breakup should ultimately benefit investors, the recent healthcare equipment… Read More