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[InvestmentNews] Avoid Muni Bond ETFs?
October 05, 2009 3:50 am
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Investment News’ David Hoffman is out with an in-depth piece largely suggesting that investors should avoid municipal bond ETFs. Citing two ETF experts—Marvin Appel of Appel Asset Management and Jim Lowell of the Forbes ETF Advisor—Hoffman notes that muni bond ETFs can trade at substantial premiums and discounts when they are in or out of favor with investors. Lowell and Appel also argue that the opaque nature of the muni bond market lends itself to active management.
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Inside ETFs: A Reality Check
The Inside ETFs conference last month was a great opportunity for an ETF analyst like me to escape my ivory tower.Summing Sector SPDRS = SPY?
You’d think owning the nine sector SPDRs in proportion to their weightings in the S&P 500 is a way to recreate SPY. But you’d be wrong.
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