2011 has rattled investors’ confidence as sluggish economic growth in the developed world was complemented with resurfacing European debt woes and deficit drama on the home front. With clouds of uncertainty gathering on all fronts, investors have been scrambling for safe haven exposure, although volatile trading has plagued virtually every corner of the market. Unfavorable market conditions have taken their toll on many of our all-ETF model portfolios; however, some of our portfolios have turned in rather impressive year-to-date performances amidst the overwhelming turmoil. [click to continue…]
New exchange traded products continue to debut on the market by the cartload, as issuers have been ramping up activity on the product development front while ongoing innovation in the ETF industry is paving the way for one of a kind, first-to-market products. Investors can implement any number of strategies across a multitude of asset [...]
A new all-ETF model portfolio is now available to ETFdb Pro members; the Aggressive ETFdb Portfolio offers a broad-based collection of ETFs constructed with bullish investors in mind who are willing and able to stomach great amounts of volatility, in exchange for potentially lucrative returns. A high risk/return investment strategy focuses on heavy allocation to [...]
As the ETF world has grown over the past few years, investors have had the opportunity to access a number of different asset classes that were once off-limits to the average investor. Products targeting a number of currencies, commodities, and emerging markets that were at one time inaccessible to all but the biggest and most powerful investors [...]
The exchange-traded fund industry has enjoyed explosive growth in recent years due to the significant advantages of these investment vehicles over traditional mutual funds and individual securities. Perhaps most notably, ETFs offer investors a cost-efficient mechanism to gain access to a diversified basket of securities. ETFs allow investors to create a well-diversified investment portfolio by holding [...]
Not too long ago, J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly posted 25 Useful Financial Rules of Thumb. These guidelines are designed to help everyday people do more with their finances. We wanted to expand on that idea and make a more investing-specific list, with useful rules of thumb for the everyday, buy-and-hold ETF/index fund investor. [...]
Founded in 2001, Dave Fry’s ETF Digest was among the first Web sites to cover ETFs. Mr. Fry began tracking these securities in 1996, and his trading programs are based on his technical analysis of their intermediate and long-term price movements. He has been featured and quoted in leading financial publications, including Barron’s, Investor’s Business [...]
When the economy tanks, Treasury bills become a very popular investment. The downside is, when you combine increased demand for government bonds with very low inflation, these same Treasury bills pay extremely low rates of return. So low, in fact, that their real returns would virtually wiped out (and possibly turned negative) should inflation return [...]
