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Remembering Collateral Costs | Print |  E-mail
Written by Paul Amery   
Friday, 20 November 2009 08:22

There’s been a lengthy discussion on other blogs this week about how ETF Securities’ new currency ETCs work. In my view, the blogs’ authors, Felix Salmon of Reuters and Izabella Kaminska of FT Alphaville, have missed one key subject – collateral costs.

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Resource Shortage? | Print |  E-mail
Written by Paul Amery   
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 13:22

In which European equity sector have four of the five largest companies cut or scrapped dividends this year, while share prices have doubled?

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Mind The Gap | Print |  E-mail
Written by Paul Amery   
Friday, 13 November 2009 08:34

With sharp falls in corporate bond yields this year, are equities now looking cheap?

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Rolling Into Trouble | Print |  E-mail
Written by Paul Amery   
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:42

After I published my article on contango yesterday, my colleague Matt Hougan asked me why the top- and bottom-performing ETCs were both short maturity trackers.

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Welcome, Mr Schwab! | Print |  E-mail
Written by Paul Amery   
Friday, 06 November 2009 11:45

I confess that at first glance I looked at Schwab’s ETF launch, with its promise of no-commission trading in the firm’s own funds, with a slightly jaded eye.

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