Bradley Reifler’s Forefront Advisory joins alpha-generators with traditional institutional investors into an established platform that pools together capital, industrial resources, and agenda in the generation of optimal returns at minimum risk. His Forefront co-principals Daniel Faucetta and Dan Weiskopf, pioneers of global exchange traded fund strategies (GES), have developed an exclusive exchange traded fund (ETF) database that employs tactical asset allocation to minimize volatility, dominate specific niches, and tap market fluctuations resulting from global trends to make structural modifications to investors’ global ETF portfolios.
After March 11’s devastating trilogy of destruction involving an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis had caused the Tokyo stock market to tumble, Bradley Reifler, Dan Wieskopf, and Daniel Faucetta join analysts and traders in amazement as record inflows amounting to as much as $1 billion avalanched into US-based mutual funds and ETFs that invest in Japanese stocks by market closure at Thursday, March 17, with the iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund, the largest Japan-related ETF in all of US and UK, receiving the lion’s share of the cash at a whopping $861 million.
“ETFs provide liquidity and they are readily available to traders of all sizes. This recent trade probably included everyone from hedge funds to individual investors who thought they would play the role of contrarian for a day,” says Jeff Tjornehoj, research head for Lipper Americas at Thomson Reuters.
Citi’s Robert Buckland, on the other hand, finds “a large difference in ETFs and non-ETF fund flows.” The analyst cites the net redemptions for mutual funds and the Bank of Japan’s $370 million in ETF purchases over the past week, events which may go a long way to explain the oversized levels of inflow experienced by Japan-focused ETFs last week.
More information on Bradley Reifler, Daniel Faucetta, and Dan Weiskopf may be found at www.forefrontadvisory.com.
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