I recently received an e-message from a global investor. He’s experienced terrific gains in broad-based Asian ETFs such as the Vanguard Asia Pacific Fund (VEA) and individual country ETFs like the iShares MSCI South Korea…
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One of the best aggregators of financial info in the blogosphere is Charles Kirk of the KirkReport.com. If I want to read a variety of positions on the falling U.S. dollar, I peruse the pages…
Barclays Global Investors has been nothing short of masterful at generating market share in the exchange-traded fund environment. One of the reasons for the success of the iShares creators is the ability to find attractive…
Sonya Morris, CPA, at Morningstar gave a review of 5 increasingly popular ETFs that began trading here in 2007. Ms. Morris provided analysis of the: (1) CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) (2) Vanguard FTSE All-World…
Everyone’s talking about the latest exchange-traded fund… and with good reason. This is the first ETF that’s tracking an international treasury bond index. The first international fixed income exchange-traded fund is the SPDR Lehman International…
The first reaction that many may have to commodity investing is “very risky.” The reaction is rational if one confines his/her thinking to oil or certain metals. Yet the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index is one…
The Fed is very likely to cut rates. And the stock market tends to celebrate a stimulus to the U.S. economy. That said, a long campaign of rate-cutting is usually undertaken to fight off a…
Diversification among the stand-by asset classes (60/40 stocks/bonds) is not what it used to be. In fact, the use of additional “diversifiers” like gold hasn’t been extremely helpful either. What do I mean? In the…
There are always those who wish to know… “What If.” For example, what if you could go back to January 1, 2007, and purchase 8 ETFs. Could you outperform the S&P 500 with less risk…
It’s days like these that often confound even the most seasoned investor. Why? Because the most powerful word in the Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, “diversification,” isn’t as helpful as one might like. Diversification…
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