EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS REPORT

March 2008
Tracking Error Creeps Up

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Cover Story
Tracking Error Creeps Up
Murray Coleman
As the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry drifts further and further away from traditional, passive benchmarking, tracking error is moderately on the rise.

Features
A Global Sector Strategy With ETFs
Carl Delfeld
As economies and companies around the world become more interdependent, investors and advisors need to adapt their strategies to add value and increase the likelihood that they will outperform benchmarks. Where a company is domiciled is becoming less important; what industries and sectors it operates in is becoming more important. fff
Past, Present & Future Of Exchange-Traded Funds
ETFR Staff
ETFs are changing the investing landscape, enabling retail investors and financial advisors to build institutional-caliber portfolios on the cheap. The opening panel of the Inside ETFs conference gathered three industry experts to discuss the past, present and future of ETFs.
The New GreenHaven Commodity ETF Examined
Julian Murdoch, HardAssetsInvestor.com
GreenHaven Commodity Services has launched the latest broad-based commodity exchange-traded fund (ETF), the GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index (GCC). They filed for it back in October, but now it’s actually in the wild, and I consider this an overwhelmingly good thing.
The Best Way To Access China
Matt Hougan
Cap-weighted investors might not know it, but from many perspectives, they are significantly underweight China.
Customizing Model ETF Portfolios
ETFR Staff
One of the biggest challenges for advisors is how to properly construct model portfolios that actually use all the ETFs out there today. With over 500 ETFs, it’s easy to feel paralyzed by choice.
Fixed-Income ETFs
ETFR Staff
After a slow start, fixed income has become one of the hottest areas of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market. At the end of 2006, there were just seven fixed-income ETFs on the market. But 40 new funds launched in 2007, and even more were in the pipeline.