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Michael Johnston: As indexes have been essentially transformed into investable assets in part because of surging interest in ETFs, many advisors and investors have begun to take a closer look at Read more…
Ron Rowland: ETFs are a big help in many ways. One of the top benefits is that you are relieved from the task of deciding which individual stocks to buy out of the thousands available. Read more…
As ETFs have burst on to the scene in recent years and worked their way into the investing mainstream, the number of products available and complexity of exposure offered has increased Read more…
IVV, IWB, NYSE:BRF, NYSE:BXDD, NYSE:ERO, NYSE:EU, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:FAS, NYSE:FXE, NYSE:FZB, RSP, RWL, SPY, USO, VFH, XLF
Back on January 31 of this year, we published a piece on using market cap oriented S&P index ETFs alongside revenue weighted as well as equal weighted ETFs that are based on the same S&P indexes Read more…An overlooked, underutilized, and perhaps misunderstood ETF trading strategy is “pairs trading” where one essentially would marry a long position in one ETF with a short position in another Read more…
“Several providers of exchange-traded funds have made a big push into fundamental indexing. For example, PowerShares offers a family of funds based on fundamental indexes, led by PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 (PRF) Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, PRF, RWK, RWL
Bob Pisani, in a recent CNBC segment, looked into the different ways an index can be spliced up by an ETF through weighting methodologies. His example index was the S&P 500, and shows the performance this year based on Read more…
The following is an exerpt from Michael Johnston’s article from etfdb. Michael states, “So market capitalization-weighted ETFs, such as iShares’ S&P 500 Fund (IVV) and State Street’s Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), are doubling their holding in Citi following a somewhat arbitrary corporate action (arbitrary in the sense that it in no way impacts the size of the Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS, IVV, RWL, RWW, XLF
There has been much optimism in the auto industry because of the “CASH FOR CLUNKERS” program. This government stimulus program has proved to be quite successful. The initial response to the program was so vast Read more…
“RevenueShares applies a revenue-weighting strategy to traditionally cap-weighted indexes. By allocating assets by revenue, this firm seeks to “reduce the erosion of investor returns created by cap-weighting’s tendency to overweight outlier firms in the index Read more…
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