The following first appeared on InvestorPlace.com as The 10 Best ETFs to Buy for Yield-Starved Investors  Call it the tyranny of choice, but investors looking for income via dividend exchange-traded funds have almost too many options to choose from these days. A simple screen returns nearly 200 dividend-focused ETFs. But in a list that long, how do go...Read More

  InvestorPlace recently did a special report on ETFs: The 10 Best ETFs on the Planet Here’s an excerpt from my contribution: It’s a strange time to be an income investor. Most government bonds in the developed world actually sport negative yields. And even those in positive territory — like U.S. Treasuries — don’t yield...Read More

Wesley Gray, manager of the ValueShares US Quantitative Value ETF (QVAL), may very well be the most interesting quant you’ll ever meet. Granted, the word “quant” brings to mind an old man in a white lab coat stooped over reams of data, but hear me out. Before getting his PhD in finance from the University...Read More

In an acknowledgement of the glaringly obvious, Fitch downgraded Japan’s credit rating by a notch on Monday, citing Japan’s ballooning pubic debt. My only question is this: What took them so long? Fitch now rates Japanese debt as an A, which is five full notches below the top AAA rating…and just a few notches short...Read More

The philosophy of “buy-and-hold” investing is either holy writ or deviant heresy, depending on who you ask. My view here is a little more nuanced. You have to balance the benefits of a buy-and-hold approach — such as lower taxes and transaction costs, the historical upward bias of the market and the peace of mind...Read More