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1700+ Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) 9 Feb 2013 | 06:43 pm
There's a lot of information out there, but it's scattered on multiple web pages and sites. Sometimes is just easier to sort, filter, and group data using Excel. So I decided to compile a list of over...
ETF Definition 2 Feb 2013 | 02:46 am
Exchange Trade Funds (ETFs) are very much like mutual funds. That is, they are baskets of stock that are bought and sold. They differ from mutual funds in that shares of ETFs can be traded at any time...
ETF Resources 10 Jan 2013 | 08:14 pm
There's a lot of exchange traded fund (ETF) information out on the web. A lot of it is not worth reading and a lot of the good stuff is buried so that you have to dig deep to find it. Here's a list of...
Best ETF Articles 27 Dec 2012 | 12:28 pm
There's a lot of good investing content out on the web be it in the form of traditional articles or on blogs. Today, I look at two fairly recent commentaries that I've found to be very informative. Th...
Tax Efficiency with ETFs 16 Nov 2012 | 11:09 am
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are generally considered to be tax efficient. Unlike traditional mutual funds that are actively managed, ETFs don't involve a lot of reshuffling throughout the year. With ...
ETF Dollar Cost Averaging 14 Nov 2012 | 10:25 pm
One of the often cited advantages of exchange traded funds (ETFs) over mutual funds is that you can buy and sell them whenever the market is open. Still, most investors, in my opinion, would be better...
Alternative Energy ETFs 10 Nov 2012 | 08:51 pm
The number of alternative energy exchange traded funds (ETF) is slowly increasing. The first one I heard about came from PowerShares in the form of their WilderHill Clean Enery Portfolio offering. Alt...
WisdomTree ETFs 7 Nov 2012 | 07:49 am
WisdomTree Investments Inc. just introduced 20 exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the NYSE all of which track dividend producing indexes. In addition, these new offerings use a fundamental weighting appr...
Barefoot Running: Does Running Without Shoes Make Sense? 3 Nov 2012 | 03:34 pm
Over the years running shoe makers have convinced us that without their expensive footwear, with arch support, ankle support, and plenty of cushioning, we would destroy our knees from running. Of cour...
Inverse ETF: A Contrarian Exchange Traded Fund 29 Oct 2012 | 02:33 am
I've thought about the idea of an inverse exchange traded fund (ETF) on occasion. The idea is that this ETF would move inversely to some index so that when an index goes down, the ETF would go up. For...
