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What’s In A Name: A Look Inside ETF Tickers

Michael Johnston — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:42:04 +0000

Whenever a company prepares for a public offering, executives have been known to spend an inordinate amount of time choosing the combination of letters that will serve as the company’s ticker and often nickname within the investment community. To many, the fixation on selecting the perfect ticker seems like an irrational obsession on par with Patrick Bateman’s affinity for business cards. But there’s some evidence to support the idea that picking a clever ticker can be worth quite a bit of money. An academic study titled “Would A Stock By Any Other Ticker Smell As Sweet?” (PDF) examined the performance of “clever ticker” stocks such as Southwest (LUV), Internet America (GEEK), Lion Country Safari (GRRR), and Explosive Fabricators (BOOM). This study uncovered that between 1984 and 2004, “a portfolio of clever-ticker stocks would have beaten the market by a substantial and statistically significant margin, contradicting the efficient market hypothesis.” Theories [...]

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The Problem With Dow ETFs

Michael Johnston — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:42:58 +0000

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is one of the most widely-followed stock indexes in the world, seen as a barometer of U.S. equity market performance. The rise of the ETF industry has given investors the option to track the performance of this benchmark, and a number of spin-offs have increased ETF options for investing in the Dow. But before buying into one of the Dow ETFs available, investors should be aware of the potential drawbacks and limitations that an ETF based on the DJIA may have. History Of The Dow The Dow is one of the market indexes created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones founder Charles Dow, who named the benchmark jointly after statistician Edward Jones. The benchmark is the second oldest in the U.S., behind only the Dow Jones Transportation Index. The composition of the index has changed gradually over the years, and the current version [...]

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Best Performing ETFs Of 2009

Michael Johnston — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:00:53 +0000

Following a year that saw some of the worst performances in recent memory, many asset classes have bounced back in 2009. But some have performed better than others, and as the year draws to a close we take a look at some of the best-performing ETFs. The year’s top gainers include a few of the largest and most-heavily traded funds, but the majority of those that made the list are lesser known ETFs likely off the radar of many ETF investors. Each of the 900-plus ETFs currently included in the ETF Screener has been allocated to a single “best fit” ETFdb Category (see a complete list of ETFdb Categories here). While ETFs in the same ETFdb Category generally share similar objectives and risk/return profiles, they aren’t necessarily perfect substitutes for each other. The following list shows the fund from each ETFdb Category with this highest year-to-date return as of December [...]

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The Definitive Inverse ETF Guide: Short/Bear ETFs 101

Andy H — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:00:20 +0000

As the stock market continues to rise, seemingly running ahead of fundamentals, more and more investors are becoming concerned that the stocks are becoming overvalued, and that a downward correction may be just around the corner. While safe haven investments such as the U.S. dollar and gold are popular picks for investors looking to profit from a decline in asset prices, the inverse correlation between these investments and equities is far from perfect. A growing number of investors are beginning to utilize inverse ETFs to accomplish a wide range of investment goals, ranging from establishing hedges in their portfolios to speculating on a pullback in prices. If used correctly, these products can be very powerful, but they can be complex and come with a number of risks that should be carefully considered. Taking a short position in certain asset classes is, of course, noting new. Investors have been utilizing short [...]

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