Predictions make for great headlines, but they don’t always come to fruition. In this episode of the Trending Report, we reflect on how some of the big market predictions for 2024 worked out and talk about the importance of unemotional investing and focusing on trendlines over headlines.
Traditional international indexes weighted toward financials, materials, and industrials rarely deliver the growth clients expect from equity allocations. The Pacer Nasdaq International Patent Leaders ETF (PATN) takes a different approach, targeting the 100 non-U.S. companies with the most valuable patent portfolios. By filtering international exposure through intellectual property rather than market capitalization, the fund seeks to match the innovation-driven characteristics of U.S. technology exposure while maintaining geographic diversification.
President Donald Trump has signed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package to end the partial government shutdown on Tuesday.