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Oh My! RIAs: Forbes Advisor Playbook iConference-Sep 17-CE and CFP Credits

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For RIAs who want to be smarter (and at the same time, earn CFP and CE credits, MarketsMuse points you to the Sept 17, Forbes Advisor Playbook iConference. Why? Well for one, Shark Tank shark extraordinaire Kevin O’Reilly a newbie ETF Issuer of exchanged-traded funds firm “O’Shares”  (whose first product is OUSA) will be a guest speaker, along with a list of other industry luminaries that include Schorders’ Head of US Multi-Sector Fixed Income Andy Chorlton, Tim Palmer, Head of Global Interest Rates for Nuveen, Luciano Siracusano, Chief Investment Strategist for WisdomTree.

What does the day long session include? 6 timely topics ranging from Capital Markets and Game Theory to debating Optimal Active vs. Passive Portfolio Construction. MarketsMuse knows this will be a must-attend simply because the program is being coordinated by Julie Cooling of RIAchannel and our favorite ETF journalist, Todd Shriber aka ETF Godfather will be one of the program’s moderators.

What’s In It For You? 6 CFP and 6 CIMA CE Credits!

How do you sign up? Click Here!

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Swimming With New Sharks: Kevin O’Leary Jumps into ETF Biz

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How big are ETFs these days? Even Kevin O’Leary, aka “Mr. Wonderful” of ABC’s “Shark Tank” is getting into the game. On Tuesday, O’Leary was on the NYSE floor to launch the O’Shares FTSE US Quality Dividend ETF, (ARCA NYSE:OUSA): a basket of high-dividend stocks.

But he’s not doing this just to enter the crowded ETF space, which already has 1,700 ETFs and more than 50 ETF providers.

As noted by the coverage from CNBC, “Mr. Wonderful” is entering the exchange-traded fund world as an Issuer because he needed an investment vehicle for the equity portion of his family trust, which he started in 1997. O’Leary claims he wanted an investment vehicle that was rule-based, first and foremost, so no one would tinker with it.

And he wanted dividends. Why dividends? As O’Leary accurately opines, 70 percent of the returns in the stock market over the past decade or so have come from dividends.

But O’Leary did not just want to buy a basket of the highest-yielding ETFs. You can get that already with Vanguard High Dividend Yield, and you can get variations, like the iShares Select Dividend, that screen by dividend-per-share growth rate, or the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, which focuses on companies that have steadily increased dividends. O’Leary’s rule-based system is predicated on the following:

  1. A total yield close to 3 percent
  2. with 20 percent less volatility than the market
  3. with stocks that all had strong balance sheets

OUSA is therefore comprised of 140 stocks selected from the FTSE USA Index, comprised of 600 of the largest U.S. publicly-listed equities.

Given the high-profile presence and PR power of O’Leary, O’Shares made its debut on Tuesday in heavy volume. It’s the latest in a flurry of new ETF launches this month; now with 28 new funds, July is already tied for the most ETF launches of any month this year.