Features
How To Tell If Your ETF Is About To Close
By Matt Hougan - November 06, 2009 11:19 AM

Many funds that close trade with wide spreads and wide premiums/discounts, so a fund closure can sometimes actually be a blessing in disguise.

 
 October 26 – October 30
By Heather Bell - November 02, 2009 12:00 AM

It was a busy week in the ETF industry!

 
Trader Vic: Buy Gold, Sell Oil
By Matt Hougan - October 30, 2009 4:01 PM

In an exclusive interview, legendary commodities investor ‘Trader Vic’ calls gold the ‘best investment in the world.’ Plus the outlook for regulation, T-bills and oil.

 
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Research
By Robert Arnott and John West - October 28, 2009 1:15 PM

In the ‘take no prisoners’ market of 2008, a ‘don’t just do something, stand there!’ approach would not have been the worst investing method.

 
By Tyler Mordy - October 02, 2009 12:00 AM

Ignore the dollar and its ugly duckling cousins like the euro; look to emerging markets for growth.

 
Webinars
By IndexUniverse Staff - September 18, 2009 4:28 PM

Joanne Hill, Head of Investment Strategy for ProFunds Group, examines more than 50 years of historical returns and provides new insights into the link between volatility and long-term performance in leveraged and inverse ETFs. Hill also discusses a simple rebalancing strategy that can help investors achieve leveraged or inverse index exposure over extended holding periods.

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Click here to view PowerPoint presentation in PDF format

 

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Matt Hougan
Is Schwab Big News For ETFs?

Schwab’s new ETFs solve one critical problem in the ETF market, but they won’t take over the world. At least not for a while.



Dave Nadig
You May Love ETNs, Matt, But You Can’t Trade Them

It’s one thing to love a product for its innovation, but another to blanket the world with that love without highlighting the real problems.



 
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Direct from Schwab's New York ETF launch event, Matt Hougan and Dave Nadig discuss the "free-to-trade" ETF concept.

 
ETF search
ETF MARKET MONITOR
Nov 08, 2009 02:36 AM
Fund Index Price %
US Equities
SPY S&P 500 107.13 0.26%
DIA DJIA 100.37 0.21%
QQQQ Nasdaq-100 42.56 0.50%
MDY S&P MC 400 123.75 -0.22%
IWM Russell 2K 58.08 0.07%
VTI DJW5000 53.95 0.26%
Global Equities
EFA MSCI EAFE 54.98 0.24%
EEM MSCI EM 39.65 -0.13%
FXI China 25 44.17 -0.09%
Bonds
TLT LT Treas. 93.33 0.10%
TIP TIPS 104.35 0.28%
AGG Corp. Bond 104.37 0.09%
Commodities
DBC Commdty 23.80 -1.61%
GLD Gold 107.43 0.42%
USO Oil 39.70 -2.70%

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