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- Too Early To Buy Homebuilders ETF
- Larry MacDonald submits: House prices in the U.S. are tumbling. Jobs are disappearing. Retail sales are plunging. But mortgage rates keep going up. The rate on Jumbo mortgages just hit a new 52-week high of 7.84%, a percentage higher than a year ago and two percentage points higher...
- External links 2008-10-16
- Leveraged ETFs: Not for Long Term Investors
- Larry MacDonald submits: A Nobel-Laureate gave some investment advice 50 years ago. The Laureate was Yale University professor James Tobin and his advice was: the optimal portfolio for the long-term investor is indexed to the market and leveraged. by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2008-10-26
- Riding ETF Popularity: Buy ETF and ETN Providers
- Larry MacDonald submits: Somebody forgot to tell the ETF industry about the recession. Suppliers are still growing like gangbusters while just about every other industry is keeling over. Consider this: during September and October in the U.S., “$61 billion found its way into ETFs from retail and institutional...
- External links 2008-11-29
- Check the Tracking Error Margin For Currency ETFs
- Larry MacDonald submits: Most investors understand that currency-hedged foreign funds will have a higher management expense ratio (MER) due to the hedging costs. What may escape them, however, is the fact that such currency-hedged funds can also have rather large “tracking errors.” This makes the cost of currency...
- External links 2009-01-12
- What You Should Know About Securities Lending
- Larry MacDonald submits: I have been thinking for a while about posting on “securities lending,” the practice where mutual funds and exchange-traded funds ETFs lend out securities in their portfolios to mainly hedge funds for short selling. But Jason Zweig’s May 30 column in the Wall Street Journal...
- External links 2009-06-02
- Hoping for a Vanguard Takeover of iShares
- Larry MacDonald submits: There apparently is a rumor going around that Vanguard Group may buy Barclays' BCS iShares family of exchange-traded funds before the June 16 deadline that Barclays’ has for shopping the asset around hat tip to Preet Banerjee. There will be a big break-up fee of...
- External links 2009-06-04
- Risk Budgeting With VIX ETNs
- Larry MacDonald submits: Mark Yamada, President & CEO of P?R Investing Inc., designs portfolios of exchange-traded funds ETFs for investors. In my last post, I reviewed his use of “risk budgeting” to rebalance portfolios with regard to the volatility of stock markets (a technique employed by the...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Some Commodity ETFs Are Breaking Down
- Larry MacDonald submits: This is not supposed to happen in the world of exchange-traded funds ETFs. Some rather large and persistent premiums to net asset value have emerged recently. by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2009-09-11
- Airline Stocks Have Been Soaring
- Larry MacDonald submits: An article today on breakingviews.com about the airline sector reminded me of my post earlier this year suggesting the Claymore/NYSE Arca Airline ETF FAA as a speculative buy. Let’s check in with the industry to see what’s up these days. by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2009-09-17
- Joining the Chorus Against the ETF Explosion
- Larry MacDonald submits: Now the explosion in exchange-traded funds ETFs has gone too far. I held off with this charge while others like John Bogle bemoaned the arrival of sector ETFs, “intelligent ETFs,” and other departures from broad-market ETFs. But as of this day, I’m joining Bogle and...
- External links 2009-09-21
- How Traders Are Front-Running ETFs
- Larry MacDonald submits: Another aspect of exchange-traded funds ETFs coming to the fore lately is front-running. That’s the practice where traders buy ahead of large orders from ETFs and short sell ahead of large sell orders. They scalp profits by flipping their newly acquired long positions back to...
- External links 2009-10-11
- More on the Mutual Fund vs. ETF Debate: Part II
- Larry MacDonald submits: Here is the second part of the post on the ETF vs. mutual fund debate …. Product integrity by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2009-10-21
- Schwab's New ETFs: A Watershed Event
- Larry MacDonald submits: U.S. broker Charles Schwab’s launch this week of 8 new exchange traded funds ETFs could be a watershed event for providers and users of ETFs and mutual funds. What’s remarkable is that Schwab has fixed its management expense ratios MERs even lower than the Vanguard...
- External links 2009-11-07
- Bonds vs. Bond ETFs
- Larry MacDonald submits: I have been wrestling with the question of whether it is better for the retail investor to buy bonds directly or bond exchange-traded funds ETFs. At this stage, I’m leaning toward bond ETFs as the best way to go for long-term horizons (e.g. retirement funds)....
- External links 2009-11-25
- Using ETFs for Tax Harvesting: Hidden Alpha?
- Larry MacDonald submits: One of the advantages of exchange-traded funds ETFs is that they make it easier to harvest tax losses in taxable accounts. For example, if you have a loss showing in the iShares CDN Large Cap 60 Index Fund XIU you can simultaneously sell it and...
- External links 2009-12-02
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- Bank ETF Investors: Regionals Are Not too Big to Fail
- Larry MacDonald submits: The 19 largest U.S. banks may now be off the critical list thanks to billions of dollars in government support, stage-managed “stress tests,” and a raft of equity issues floated into the rather suspicious-looking doubling in financial stocks over the past two months. But what...
- External links 2009-05-21
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