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Nov 30 2005

Pitfalls of All-ETF Portfolios

While he has admittedly "been a big fan of ETFs since their inception," Roger Nusbaum, a RealMoney.com Contributor, points out some of the pitfalls of overreliance on these popular investment products. He cites geographical gaps in exchange-traded funds' coverage, and warns of managed ETF products, such as Ameritrade's Amerivest program and the Fidelity ETF Portfolio Builder, which he feels "gives investors no forward-looking analysis, and that's a major negative." Nusbaum also finds that "Another drawback is that many of the products don't make use of all of the ETF families or products," in this three-page article from TheStreet.com.

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