Hottest ETFs on the Move

July 17, 2010

It was a tumultuous week in the market with events ranging from the Goldman settlement and disappointing earnings elsewhere in Financials to Apple’s mea culpa to less than stellar jobs numbers.  Broader indices ended the week slightly down with the S&P500 (SPY) losing 1.2% and the NASDAQ (QQQQ) losing 0.6%.  Volatility picked up and the […]

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Actively Managed ETF Wins in Both Up and Down Markets

July 15, 2010

I was a bit skeptical when I started to see “actively managed ETFs” popping up over the past couple years, so I thought I’d take a look at one of the larger ones and see how it’s performed vs. the broader market.  In looking at the PowerShares Active AlphaQ (PQY), I was actually surprised by […]

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LikeAssets Review

July 12, 2010

Making stock and mutual fund picks is big business. Financial websites and magazines offer individual investors great ideas every day – and plenty of bad ones, as well. Unfortunately, there are few tools helping investors sort out the good ideas from the bad ones. LikeAssets is a new website highlighting the wide range of returns […]

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Sector Review: Utility ETFs for High Yield and Stability

July 9, 2010

Investors are starting to pay more attention to Utility Stocks and Utility ETFs of late given the low interest rate environment that doesn’t seem to have an end in sight.  With the 10-year Treasury hovering around 3% and the prospect of loss of principal one bonds when rates do rise eventually, the prospect of equities […]

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Significant Factors Impacting Financials – ETF Plays to Consider

June 30, 2010

Financial ETFs have been among the most volatile sectors over the past few years, with the sector swinging from near complete collapse to euphoria over year over year comps for earnings (any positive earnings announcement compared to a year ago multi-billion dollar loss looks great).  With the the investment banks especially, able to borrow from […]

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2 Income ETF Approaches: High Yield vs. Dividend Growth Rate

June 21, 2010

There are two main schools of thought in dividend investing and for whatever reason, investors tend to be polarized into one camp or the other.  On one hand, investors tend to be drawn to juicy dividend yields of 8% or more given that this matches the long-term return on equities over long periods of time […]

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Reverse Splits: Why Leveraged ETFs All Go to Zero

June 17, 2010

I couldn’t help but notice the press release today on the reverse splits announced for 4 more leveraged ETFs: Direxion Daily Energy Bear 3x Shares (ERY) Direxion Daily Real Estate Bear 3x Shares (DRV) Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3x Shares (TZA) Direxion Daily Technology Bear 3x Shares (TYP) Some Details on the Reverse Splits: […]

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ETFs on the Move: Winners in the Down Market

June 6, 2010

With the S&P500 losing over 3% on the week on a poor jobs report, further implosion of the Euro zone (check out country by country EU Austerity Measures) and the realization that the disaster in the Gulf is likely going to start to have long term implications outside the scope of whatever legal bills BP […]

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ETFs to Watch – May’s Hottest ETFs

May 31, 2010

After one of the most tumultuous months in stocks investors have seen since the financial collapse, it’s instructive to take a look back and see which ETFs fared well through the flash crash, an imploding EU, an environmental disaster in the gulf unfolding before our eyes and a possible war brewing in the Koreas.  For […]

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