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Vanguard has stepped away from its bread-n-butter indexing by creating an actively managed inflation protection ETF.  Not only will they be competing with PIMCO, but Vanguard may also be challenging an iShares hallmark vehicle, the iShares TIPS Fund (TIP).

If you’re looking for income-generating strategies, you will not want to miss the Vanguard discussion. For that matter, you’ll also want to read up on leveraged exchanged-traded notes:

Vanguard Inflation ETFs to Challenge TIPS - Don Dion, The Street
ETF Traders… The New Hot Financial Commodity? - Izabella Kaminska, FT.com
Barclays’ Intriguing New Leveraged ETNs - Scott’s Investments, Seeking Alpha

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Tags | ETF Invseting, ETF Trading, Inflation Protection ETFs, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged ETNs