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Over the last several years ETFs have become popular tools for active investors seeking to take advantage of short-term mispricings in the market; the average daily trading volumes on many of the most popular-exchange-traded products clearly indicates that ETFs are widely used by day traders who measure their holding periods in minutes rather than years. Of course, ETFs also continue to be tremendously powerful tools for the set of the market for which they were originally designed: long-term, buy-and-hold investors. For those in it for the long haul, ETFs can represent a way to tap into a compelling investment thesis that is expected to play out over the course of several years or even decades, without conducting company-specific research or taking on considerable company-specific risk [see also 12 High-Yielding Commodities For 2012].  [click to continue…]

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How Low Can Vanguard Go? Sector ETFs Get Expense Cuts

by Michael Johnston on January 3, 2012

Vanguard, the Pennsylvania-based provider of ETFs and mutual funds known for its low management expenses, has further enhanced the cost efficiency on its lineup of sector-specific ETFs. The company announced that the expense ratios on a handful of its sector funds have been cut to 0.19%, making them slightly cheaper than the popular lineup of  Sector SPDRs and on par with several FocusShares ETFs. The Vanguard sector ETFs and their expense ratios are now as follows [sign up for the free ETFdb newsletter]: [click to continue…]

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Scott Brown’s Upset Senate Election & Healthcare ETFs

by Michael Johnston on January 20, 2010

Highlighting the increasingly fluid political landscape in Washington, a relatively unknown Republican state senator claimed the Massachusetts Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy on Tuesday. Scott Brown’s upset victory over Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general who had been a heavy favorite just one month ago, not only humbled Democrats already expecting a handful [...]

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Low Cost ETFs: Complete List Of The Cheapest Exchange-Traded Funds

by Michael Johnston on December 16, 2009

The reasons for the rise of the ETF industry are numerous: intraday liquidity, (potentially) superior tax efficiency, and enhanced transparency relative to traditional actively-managed mutual funds have all contributed to the billions of dollars of inflows that these funds have seen in recent years. But the real attraction for most ETF investors is the reduced [...]

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This Week In ETFs: October 16th Edition

by Eric Dutram on October 16, 2009

It’s been an interesting week the world of ETFs:  ETFs trended upwards at the beginning of the week but fell back in trading late Thursday and Friday. Here are the ETF Database staff picks of the week’s most important and interesting stories from around the Web:

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