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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mutual Funds and Etfs, News and Views

Vanguard Tries 7 New Bond ETF Offerings (VGSH, VGIT, VGLT, VCSH ...
Vanguard has just launched seven new bond exchange traded funds today. We are seeing very thin trading volume, and that will be the single biggest benchmark used for whether or not these become a success or whether they become just ... Vanguard ...

Ulli...The Wall Street Bully — insights into no load mutual fund ...
insights into no load mutual fund/etf investing. Not always politically correct, Ulli Niemann shares his observations, his investing insights and his unreserved ruminations & reactions to market behavior. A registered investment advisor ...

Picking Apart A Dividend ETF For The Best Dividend Payers
These days, an exchange-traded fund (ETF) covers nearly every corner of the equity markets. Of course, there are dividend ETFs and international ETFs, and then there are international dividend ETFs. This is a potent marriage, to be sure, ... and it ...

Main Street vs. Wall Street: Using ETFs to Capitalize | ETF Trends
October 6, 2009 – Every exchange traded fund (ETF) investor has at least a few of their favorite, go-to funds. It's also worthwhile at times to periodically check out the favorites of others to... Continue Reading » · Two ETFs to Play ...

Gold ETF celebrates 5th anniversary > Gold News > World Gold ...
The first exchange traded fund (ETF) for gold to be listed in the United States has celebrated its fifth anniversary at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). SPDR Gold Shares, which carries the ticker symbol GLD, was launched in 2004 by ...

Investors will buy anything -- even a fictional ETF promising 100 ...
To the extent the financial crisis was exacerbated by complex derivatives and their misuse by hedge funds and other "sophisticated" users, it's clear that some would embrace products like this so-far fictional ETF. ...

ETFs vs. Mutual Funds: 5 Reasons ETFs Are Better | Daily Markets
While mutual funds have had a long and successful run, exchange traded funds (ETFs) are encroaching upon territories that used to belong to mutual funds. Does this mean investors see ETFs as a better investment option? An ETF is a ...

A Few Ways to Find Out the Mutual Fund Performance - Mutual Funds
Mutual funds allow people to invest their money in a way that will provide them with future benefits. When you are looking at a mutual fund in which you can.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Mutual Funds, ETFs, News and Views

The Best New Mutual Funds of 2009 - Morningstar - Fund Spy
Russel Kinnel is Morningstar's director of mutual fund research. He is also the editor of Morningstar FundInvestor, a monthly newsletter dedicated to helping investors pick great mutual funds, build winning portfolios, ... It's a foreign small-cap ...

The ETF revolution that Schwab has unveiled | 16 November 2009 ...
I've been talking for years about the way exchange traded funds (ETFs) are changing the investment landscape. Yet sometimes I'm still startled to see the world change in front of my eyes. That's exactly what happened last week when Charles Schwab ... ...

787 ETFs Listed - Every Exchange Traded Fund Known to Man | Tip'd
This ETF List covers over 700 Exchange Traded Funds in all sectors and strategies from emerging markets and commodities to leveraged and short ETFs. ...

ETF Investing: Investors pull money from small-cap ETFs (source ...
Investors are pulling money out of small-cap exchange-traded funds as the group shows signs of weakening, and that could spell trouble for the US market overall. (source: Market Watch) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com.

Ten ways to Evaluate a Mutual Fund | fwisp
Evaluating mutual funds can be a very sophisticated process, and there are a lot of possibilities of a mistake (and that we want to avoid as much as possible, don't we:). This post lists the top 10 points to wrap your head around when ...

Fidelity Tries to Give ETFs a Run for Their Money | ETF Trends
As exchange traded funds (ETFs) continue to gleam with popularity and enable investors exposure to specific sectors, Fidelity argues that its mutual funds do the same. Fidelity offers nine mutual funds that correspond to the well-known ...

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Mutual Funds, ETFs, News and Views

WSJ: More Mutual Funds Attempt to "Time" the Market -- MrSwing
[More Stock Mutual Funds Declare Cash is King] I have a separate piece I'm working on regarding a move to hedging techniques in another corner of the mutual fund universe, but we have seen that "innovation" finally explored ...

Mutual Funds Weekly: Value-fund investors win the waiting game ...
Value-stock investors are a confident lot, always on the hunt for the diamond in the rough and sure they'll be among the first to find it. And now, they're moving to the large caps. (source: Market Watch) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on ...

Schwab Changes The ETF Landscape | Daily Markets
I've been talking for years about the way exchange traded funds (ETFs) are changing the investment landscape. Yet sometimes I'm still startled to see the. ... businesses would like to offer ETFs to employees, but right now they can't. Partly, it's an ...

S&P 500 ETF List
iShares S&P 500 Growth Index Fund (IVW): This is another ETF that tracks the S&P 500, and has an expense ratio of 0.18%. This one has an inception date of 05/22/200. Apart from these two regular S&P 500 ETF, — Proshares offer you ...

CHART OF THE DAY: ETF Investors Are Still Fleeing U.S. Stocks
Investors have been pouring into Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) this year. $108 billion flowed into ETFs year to date, $24 billion of which came during the last three months. Yet while investors have been pouring into commodity, ...

Earning Dividends With International ETFs | ETF Trends
Dividend exchange traded funds (ETFs) are a good fit in any portfolio. But an investor should know the sector weightings included in dividend ETFs, lest you get bitten when a... Continue Reading » · What Japan's New ...

Fundmastery Blog » Blog Archive » Mutual funds on the rebound
It is a well-run mutual fund that had a very rough year in 2008. Other funds on this list such as Vanguard Windsor and Ariel are funds with solid long-term records. This is a good piece because it illustrates how different things look ...

5 Tips for Trading ETFs | ETF Trends
There are distinct applications that should be utilized when trading your exchange traded funds (ETFs) or buying them. Holding an ETF position for years has no bearing upon your investment, however, entering and exiting a position can ...

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Mutual Funds, ETFs, News and Views

Beware of the Differences Between S&P 500 Index Funds - CBS ...
Index fund expenses play a critical role in the returns their investors earn. That would seem to be a self-evident fact, but it appears that a not-ins. ... Asked to square his contention that mutual funds compete on price with the wide range of ...

Charles Schwab Might be the Best Choice for Passive Investors | Tip'd
With Schwab offering the cheapest index funds & ETFs on the market, they may have become the best solution for the cost conscious passive investing cr...

Compare Mutual Funds With These Key Statistics - Mutual Funds
Finally, manager tenure should always be a consideration when evaluating and comparing mutual funds other than index funds. A mutual fund with a good long-term record under the same manager is highly desirable, and there should be a ...

How To Tell If Your ETF Is About To Close - Features
[This article previously appeared in the Exchange-Traded Funds Report.] Your ETF is shutting down. Those are five words financial advisers and other ETF investors never want to hear. However, it's not because anything too terrible happens: ...

Vanguard ETFs: How It Gained a Foothold In a Competitive Market ...
Vanguard was a relative latecomer to the exchange traded fund (ETF) industry, launching its first fund in 2001. But the firm has since become the third-largest ETF provider, thanks in part to low fees. Vanguard Group Inc. is already the largest ...

Top Financial Equity Funds – Mutual Fund Commentary | Stock Market ...
Discover Many More Funds Learn more about the new Zacks Mutual Fund Rank and discover some of the best market-beating mutual funds by browsing our new mutual funds section. This part of Zacks.com offers a variety of tools, ...

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Friday, November 06, 2009

Mutual Funds, ETFs, News and Views

ETF Investors Weren't Spooked In October | ETF Trends
Exchange traded fund (ETF) assets have been on the mend for much of this year, and the month of September was no exception. By the end of September, U.S.-listed ETF assets hit an... ...

Equity Mutual Funds Continue To Hemorrhage Cash
"Credit remains the only game in town," says Goldman Sachs.

10 Reasons ETF Tracking Error Occurs | ETF Trends
As exchange traded funds (ETFs) become increasingly sophisticated and target new and interesting markets with unique strategies, it's growing more and more important to... · Natural Gas ETF Outlines Its ...

Mutual Fund Fee Battle - CBS MoneyWatch.com
Are mutual fund fees too high? Our editors explain how a current Supreme Court case affects you and your money. ... Mutual Fund Fee Battle. Too Big to Fail: What Really Happened.

Vanguard's Low ETF Fees Help Late Arrival to the Market Increase Share
Ferri said he prefers ETFs to index mutual funds because they are cheaper to own. Vanguard's Total Stock Market ETF charges 9 cents for $100 in assets, half the 18 cents for the comparable index fund, Bloomberg data show. ... The ETF gains ...

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Mutual Funds News, Views

Stock Strategy Trading » Bogle Takes on Mutual Fund Industry as ...
Bogle Takes on Mutual Fund Industry as Top Court Considers Fees Bloomberg The industry's trade association, the Washington-based Investment Company Institute, says the case may produce the most important Supreme Court ruling in … ...

Mutual Funds Go to Washington - Morningstar - Commentary
Mutual Funds Go to Washington It's been quite the week for mutual fundsin the Beltway. First, the Senate Committee on Aging convened. ... Morningstar provides stock market analysis; equity, mutual fund, and ETFresearch, ratings, and picks ; ...

When do Mutual Funds distribute dividends from companies they are ...
If you have money in an annuity that is invested in a Mutual Fund and you don't receive dividend distributions because it is in an annuity account, how does the.

What are the best mutual funds to invest in during a recession?
Invest in ETF: ETFs are cheaper than mutual funds. ETFs have very low annual expenses, nearly 20 basis points or 0.2% less. As against this, actively managed mutual funds show average expenses exceeding 135 basis points (1.35%). ... transactions ...

October ETF Performance Report | ETF Trends
October ETF Performance Report October was largely a mixed month for stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs), marked by both encouraging high points and gloomy low ones. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finally crossed a milestone 10000 ...

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