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Martin Hutchinson: In today’s market, dividend investing is the best way to achieve a decent income stream without taking on too much risk. On the other hand, this is also true: emerging markets give investors the benefit of the world’s fastest economic growth. Read more…
I just returned from a great Oxford Club summit on emerging markets held in tropical Nicaragua (nice to be back in cold Colorado). One of the speakers was a friend of mine, Doug Clayton, CEO of Leopard Capital, a leading frontier markets Read more…
David Gillie: For those of you in my generation, the thought of Vietnam brings up visuals of military carnage as seen on the nightly news of the 1960′s. This is what Vietnam looks like today. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: As dire as economic conditions appear in Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) due to the debt crisis, the tactics of the European Central Bank in financing rescue packages has actually made them worse. Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Over the last couple of years, investor interest in certain asset classes and general strategies has spiked as a result of the challenges facing global financial markets. With interest rates at record lows and volatility jumping to higher-than-average levels, dividend-focused ETFs have Read more…
Michael Johnston: A quick look at the headlines on any given day is generally enough to explain why investors have been shifting greater percentages of their long-term portfolios towards emerging markets Read more…
The developments of the last several years have highlighted the growing gap between the developed and emerging markets of the world. Advanced economies in North America, Europe, and Asia face mounting debt burdens and the prospect of a prolonged stretch of low economic growth. Read more…
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Today’s market environment has created a hazy outlook for equities as major equities have fallen into an unstable trend for much of 2011. While some remain bullish on the economic recovery, others feel that recent statistics point the other way, and that we are heading for a slowdown. Read more…
EGShares, the only ETF issuer focused exclusively on emerging markets, announced today the introduction of another product offering exposure to equities of developing markets. The new Emerging Markets High Income Low Beta ETF (NYSE:HILO) will seek to replicate the Read more…
Seeking out dividend payers can help investors tap emerging-markets growth while providing a downside risk cushion, according to WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg. Steinberg talks a little bit about the WisdomTree fund, WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Inc (NYSE:DEM), and gives us a little highlight on strategy there and Read more…
David Fry: This posting features a comprehensive review of the dividend related ETF sector. There are over three dozen ETFs issued (including Elements not covered here) with more on the way to evaluate in this sector. To simplify matters for investors we’ve whittled choices down to 10. Read more…
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WisdomTree, the New York-based firm behind more than 45 ETFs, reported first quarter net income of $0.2 million, the first profitable quarter for the publicly-traded ETF 
Diversification is the theme that has emerged since. August 2008. Today investors are diversifying in multiple dimensions: nationally, regionally, industrially and from a sector perspective. 
Dividend ETFs performed well last week: leading the pack are the emerging market stocks (NYSE:EEM) and emerging market dividend stocks (NYSE:DEM), gaining 2.38% and 1.9% 
State Street rolled out two new ETFs on Thursday, launching products offering exposure to emerging markets equities and fixed income securities. The SPDR Barclays Capital Emerging 
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