IGF - iShares Global Infrastructure ETF
| Previous Close | 45.04 |
| Open | 45.02 |
| Bid | 44.95 x 800 |
| Ask | 44.96 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 44.93 - 45.10 |
| 52 Week Range | 37.95 - 45.27 |
| Volume | 190,784 |
| Avg. Volume | 243,327 |
| Net Assets | 2.83B |
| NAV | 44.91 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | N/A |
| Yield | 3.10% |
| YTD Return | 14.25% |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 0.72 |
| Expense Ratio (net) | 0.47% |
| Inception Date | 2007-12-10 |
- Benzinga•3 months ago
State Of The Union Fallout For Trade War, Pharma And Infrastructure Stocks
President Donald Trump delivered his highly anticipated State of the Union address Tuesday night. U.S. investors were hoping for a positive update on trade negotiations with China. The ongoing trade war rattled the market in the fourth quarter, and several major U.S. companies have blamed China for earnings and guidance misses.
- Market Realist•6 months ago
How Real Asset Investing Could Boost Portfolio Returns
The VanEck Vectors® Real Asset Allocation ETF (RAAX™) uses a data-driven, rules-based process that leverages over 50 indicators (technical, macroeconomic and fundamental, commodity price, and sentiment) to allocate across 12 individual real asset segments in five broad real asset sectors. These objective indicators identify the segments with positive expected returns. Then, using correlation and volatility, an optimization process determines the weight to these segments with the goal of creating a portfolio with maximum diversification while reducing risk. ...
- ETF Trends•7 months ago
ETFs to Capture the Growth of Expanding Infrastructure Needs
Money managers are betting on the ongoing need to upgrade and expand the world's infrastructure to accommodate the growing global economy and rising population. Exchange traded fund investors can also tap into this industry through infrastructure sector-specific strategies. Private-equity firms have raised a record $68.2 billion for infrastructure investing for the first three quarters of the year, up 18% over the same period last year and surpassing the $66.2 billion for all of 2016, the Wall Street Journal reports.
- Market Realist•8 months ago
The Benefits of Real Asset Investing
MORRIS: In essence one of the things we have accomplished with these three products is to reduce the volatility inherent in all markets, and in particular very volatile markets like the real asset sectors. It’s another way, in a sense, for investors, by keeping those profits through the cycle, they can actually compound their money in a slightly different way as opposed to a buy-and-hold strategy for long periods of time. In some ways this is kind of a marriage of our fundamental investing, long-only investing heritage, particularly in emerging markets and global markets and natural resources.
- Market Realist•8 months ago
Comparing ONEOK and Targa Resources’ Earnings Growth
ONEOK (OKE) reported adjusted EBITDA growth of 30% YoY (year-over-year) in the second quarter. The company’s EBITDA growth in the last four quarters averaged 20%. Similarly, Targa Resources’ adjusted EBITDA grew 26% YoY in the second quarter. The company’s EBITDA growth averaged 15% in the last four quarters.
Market Realist•9 months agoRAAX ETF: Capturing Real Benefits of Real Assets
The actively managed VanEck Vectors® Real Asset Allocation ETF (RAAX) offers investors the ability to access the potential benefits of real assets. By offering potential exposure across commodities, natural resource equities, REITs, MLPs, and infrastructure, with the ability to allocate up to 100% to cash and cash equivalents during market stress, RAAX helps address the impact of volatility long associated with real asset investing through a process that responds to changing market environments. ...
Market Realist•9 months agoCurrent Economic Tailwinds Are Powering Real Assets
As the headwinds are likely to continue to dissipate, the potential benefits of real asset investing are coming into clearer focus. Notably, an allocation to real assets can be used to help investors enhance portfolio diversification, gain exposure to global growth, and hedge against the impact of inflation. As the current environment progresses, it is a good time to consider the impact of inflation and an allocation to real assets.
Market Realist•9 months agoShifting Economic Winds Could Be Good for Real Assets
Inflation is something that has not been seen in well over a decade, but the ingredients are there: a strong U.S. economy, unemployment at historic lows, and the recent stimuli of tax reform, deregulation, and government spending, which may not even have fully taken hold yet. Plus, recent indications from the Fed continue to indicate a potentially more aggressive approach to tightening. In developed countries, inflation had languished below the central bank’s target level for many years.
Market Realist•9 months agoAre Real Assets in the Goldilocks Zone?
To many market observers, the first quarter of 2016 marked the low point for sectors commonly associated with real assets. Stagnant global growth, oversupplied commodities markets, a strong U.S. dollar, and natural resource companies with bloated balance sheets overridden by enormous debt all combined to create tremendous headwinds that obscured the potential benefits of adding real assets to an investment portfolio. The recent environment, characterized by economic growth and heightened inflation expectations, provides an ideal backdrop for investors to consider real assets and their potential benefits.
- Market Realist•11 months ago
RAAX Fund Uses Rules-based Approach for Optimum Allocation
The VanEck Vectors Real Asset Allocation ETF (RAAX) uses a data-driven, rules-based process that leverages over 50 indicators (technical, macroeconomic and fundamental, commodity price, and sentiment) to allocate across 12 individual real asset segments in five broad real asset sectors. These objective indicators identify the segments with positive expected returns. Then, using correlation and volatility, an optimization process determines the weight to these segments with the goal of creating a portfolio with maximum diversification while reducing risk. ...
Market Realist•last yearRAAX ETF Aims to Generate Long-term Total Returns
KEMMERER: Now that we understand why the macro environment is supportive, why don’t you tell us a little bit about the investment process? What we’re doing is looking at what drives these individual real asset equities.
- Market Realist•last year
RAAX: Key Focus Areas for Long-Term Considerations
KEMMERER: Now that we understand the investment process overall, can you give us a few example sectors and how they work?
