Manager Directed Portfolios - iM DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF

DBMF aims to emulate the performance of a group of CTA hedge funds. The funds model allocates weights to derivatives selected by the funds active managers.

The odds of a 0.75% interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve meeting tomorrow are all but cemented according to analysts. Markets remain leery of what the guidance coming from the Fed might be as the central bank officially moves into a restrictive monetary policy.

Manage Fed Interest Rate Hikes With DBMF

After a decade of lackluster interest and performance, managed futures have more than demonstrated their worth and value this year in a macroenvironment of volatility and changing market regimes.

Andrew Beer Digs Into DBMF's Performance YTD

iShares Core S&P US Value ETF

The upheavals in the stock markets are likely to persist as the monetary landscape undergoes tectonic shifts. Even the value strategy which worked so well is showing signs of weakness.

IUSV And DBMF: How To Hedge A Value Portfolio With Managed Futures

Theoretically, owning 100% world-beater blue chips for the long term is the best way to maximize income and retire rich. But we're not robots and most people can't stomach bear markets without panicking. A 33% allocation to hedging assets like cash, bonds, and hedge funds, is the historically optimal strategy to maximize long-term negative-volatility adjusted returns and sleep well at night in bear markets.

3 Amazing Dividend Blue-Chips Beating This Bear Market

Markets fell hard on Tuesday after the release of the August consumer price index report, logging the worst single-day of losses since June 2020. The Dow Jones fell over 1,200 points, the S&P 500 closed down 4.32% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 5.16% August's CPI reflected a broad inflation increase of 0.1% month-over-month and 8.

As Markets Plummet, Focus on the Technicals With DBMF

Aptus Drawdown Managed Equity ETF 

First Trust Morningstar Managed Futures Strategy Fund

Invesco S&P 500 Downside Hedge ETF

Amplify Blackswan Growth & Treasury Core ETF

Investors should apply some hedging techniques to their equity portfolio. While there are a number of ways to do this, volatility-hedged ETFs could prove beneficial amid market uncertainty.

Hedge Volatility With These ETFs

Thursday was a rocky day for stocks, with major indexes managing to close higher after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave his final speech before the central bank officials go into the two-week quiet period leading up to the September 20-21 rate meeting.

Invest With Confidence During “Nervous Markets” With DBMF

KFA Mount Lucas Index Strategy ETF

Alternative investments are supplemental, usually more sophisticated, investing strategies to traditional long-only positions in stocks, bonds, and cash. Alternative investments include investments in five main categories: hedge funds, private capital, natural resources, real estate, and infrastructure.

DBMF And KMLM: 2 Alternative ETFs We Simply Can't Dislike

British American Tobacco

Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF

Enbridge

iShares U.S. Consumer Goods ETF

Altria

Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF

Toronto-Dominion Bank

Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF

Vanguard Health Care ETF

Vanguard Utilities ETF

Putting new money to work in a bear market can be terrifying, whether you have $3,000 or $3 million. But history is clear that buying blue-chip bargains in a bear market can make you rich.

How I Built A $3 Million High-Yield Portfolio With 11 Blue-Chips

DBMF offers access to the Commodity Trend asset class. It has performed well since inception, with 15% average annual returns.

DBMF: Access To Managed Futures Strategy

This year has seen a massive resurgence in popularity for liquid alternatives, with strategies such as managed futures, volatility, long-short equity, and more raking in flows. Liquid alts have been one of the few asset classes to have largely performed well in a challenging environment for equities and bonds.

Bobby Blue on the Rise of Liquid Alts and Managed Futures

iM DBi Hedge Strategy ETF 

Investors who are looking for ways to diversify their portfolios can consider the benefits of a managed futures exchange traded fund strategy. In the recent webcast, Is Your Portfolio Stuck in the Past?

A Focused Managed Futures ETF Strategy to Help Investors Better Manage Risk

During changing and volatile market conditions, investors need a nimble strategy that is capable of adapting to the shifting times and meeting the potential challenges ahead. One such method is through alternative strategies or managed futures that were once solely accessible to institutional-sized investors.

Is Your Portfolio Stuck in the Past? Look to Managed Futures

It's the year for alternatives within investing and Eric Balchunas, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, discussed the outperformance of the iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF (DBMF) on  “Bloomberg ETF IQ” last week, along with Andrew Beer, co-portfolio manager of DBMF and managing member of Dynamic Beta investments, the sub-advisor of the fund.

Eric Balchunas and Andrew Beer Talk DBMF on Bloomberg ETF IQ

Managed futures have proven their value this year, performing strongly at a time when equities and bonds have both struggled, adding diversification and some fairly significant returns to portfolios in the first half of the year.

This Managed Futures ETF Becomes First to Be Rated Five Stars

There are all kinds of trend tools and trend-following strategies when it comes to tracking funds and market movement. Funds that play to this kind of quantitative analysis-driven approach have seen renewed interest this year as volatility remains in markets and advisors and investors look for a way to play the volatility to their advantage.

DBMF: All Things Trending

Managed futures have been a popular investment this year as part of a bigger pivot to liquid alternatives in an environment that has challenged traditional 60/40 portfolios. Managed futures strategies can be wildly varied, as they take long and short positions on a whole range of asset classes (commodities, currencies, equities, etc.

The Benefits of Replication and DBMF's Outperformance YTD

Managed futures, a liquid alternatives strategy that has gained attention for its ability to offer performance (or “crisis alpha”) and returns in an environment where bonds and equities are both challenged, aren't just for hedge funds anymore.

How Does DBMF Stack Up Against Mutual Funds?

In a poll taken in June at Mercer's Global Investment Forum U.S., asset managers and asset owners globally reported uncertainty about the direction the global economy is going, a sentiment that has been reflected in volatile markets for most of 2022.

Are Managed Futures the Ultimate Traditional Portfolio Diversifier?

Markets remain tremulous, driven incessantly this year by each new economic report. The latest is the release of June's retail sales, up 1% as consumers continued spending during historic inflationary times.

Stocks Rally Once More: Investing in Times of Volatility

DBMF delivered hedge fund-like results by utilizing a variety of financial instruments and asset allocation strategies. DBMF's performance has a minimum correlation with the US equity market, which offers investors exposure to the institutional-quality market-neutral product.

DBMF: Everything Is Right About This Hedge Fund-Like ETF

The consumer price index for June is set to release tomorrow and is likely to have a marked impact on uncertain markets that so far has driven by new data releases and major news. Amid the volatility is the realization that one part of CPI is likely to remain high for the remainder of the [.

Housing Could Extend Inflation, Invest for Volatility With DBMF

Managed futures are drawing eyes and flows in the first half of 2022, with no slowing in sight. In a market driven by volatility and uncertainty, they have been a bright spot of performance and opportunity for portfolios this year.

This Managed Futures ETF Competes With Mutual Fund Peers

Alternatives have seen a lot more interest in the first half of 2022 than they have in years, with advisors and investors seeking either hedges, performance, or some variation of both in a market environment that has caused traditional portfolio allocations to largely suffer. Managed futures have stepped into the spotlight for the ability to [.

This Managed Futures ETF Saw Nothing but Inflows in June

VettaFi's vice chairman Tom Lydon discussed the iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF (DBMF) on this week's “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe of “Money Life.” Managed futures have traditionally been a strategy utilized by hedge funds that institutional investors have used for diversification opportunities.

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