Opinions
Tyler Mordy
iShares Diversified Monthly Income ETF
XTR-T
COMMENT
Sep 20, 2016
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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Does iShares collect an MER from all the other ETFs held within XTR? He's asked Blackrock this and, no, they're not double-dipping. Generally speaking, there's no question that MERs of ETFs will continue to decrease because of of competition among ETF compnaies. It's amazing how far they've fallen just in the past few years.
The bond markets are impaired and will be for a while. Low interest rates are here to stay. Income focused ETFs with exposure to bonds will not return 4-5%. Are you getting return of capital or yield? Must look into the structure where the returns are coming from. Both are similar. Both ZMI and XTR give you exposure to diversified income. All fixed income has negative return after inflation.
For revenue and safety of capital? A good holding, diversified and everything. Looking at the bigger picture with retirees facing an income crisis, he would favour a different approach. Rather than trying to source income from North America into domestic, he would favour looking further afield for income opportunities, and assemble a portfolio with a diversified yield. It could be an emerging market debt, a high dividend yielding country ETF. He launched this in 2008 and it has been a highly effective strategy.