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- 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
- Proposed Changes to Canadian Pension Plan
- Larry MacDonald submits: The Department of Finance recently announced a set of proposals to change the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). So far there seems to have been little coverage in the media. Perhaps there should be more. One big change planned is a reduction in pension benefits for...
- External links 2009-07-12
- Is BCE's Dividend Safe?
- Larry MacDonald submits: A thread on the Financial Webring discussion forum asks “How safe is BCE’s Dividend?” One poster said the dividend on the common stock, now yielding 6.4%, was getting too “yummy” and possibly signaling trouble ahead. Another referenced a Globe and Mail article highlighting increased rivalry...
- External links 2009-06-28
- Natural Gas Oversupply to Weigh on Oil Prices?
- Larry MacDonald submits: The divergence in natural-gas and crude-oil prices has gone to an extreme. Natural-gas prices have fallen below $4 (U.S.) per million British thermal units while crude oil prices have shot up and are hovering close to $70 (U.S.) a barrel, leaving the ratio of oil-to-gas...
- External links 2009-06-21
- 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
- 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
- Don't Count the Greenback Out Yet
- Larry MacDonald submits: Many people think recent weakness in the U.S. dollar marks the beginning of a lengthy decline. With the global flight to safety waning, the natural tendency of a debased currency is coming to the fore. Indeed, net short selling of the U.S. dollar on the...
- External links 2009-05-31
- 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
- A Wall St. Economist on the U.S. and China
- Larry MacDonald submits: How might markets and economies unfold from here? Probably one of the better persons to ask this question is Robert Barbera, a noted Wall Street economist who has been following economic trends for over 25 years. He is also a professor at Johns Hopkins University...
- External links 2009-05-16
- Inflation Fears Overdone?
- Larry MacDonald submits: The U.S. monetary base has doubled to $1.7 trillion US since September, a consequence of the Federal Reserve flooding financial markets with liquidity to head off a collapse of the financial system. This startling jump has many observers worried about inflation taking off. Some even...
- External links 2009-04-22
- Nortel and the Tax Implications of Bankruptcies
- Larry MacDonald submits: Mr. Roy, a former Nortel Networks senior manager, did not realize he was headed for disaster when he exercised options on 5,000 Nortel shares at $50. It was the glory days when the shares were trading at $100 in the stock market, so his immediate...
- External links 2009-07-26
- Does White Collar Crime Pay in Canada?
- Larry MacDonald submits: Earl Jones, the Montreal financial consultant suspected of running a Ponzi scheme, is now in police custody and scheduled to appear in court July 28. It will be interesting to see what sentence the Canadian judicial system hands down. There seems to be a general...
- External links 2009-07-28
- 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
- Will Canada Be Next to Raise Interest Rates?
- Larry MacDonald submits: Rate hikes by the Reserve Bank of Australia have led some analysts to wonder if the Bank of Canada will be soon following suit. David A. Rosenberg, Chief Economist & Strategist at Gluskin Sheff, is not one of them. by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2009-11-03
- 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
- 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
- Will Canadian Housing Prices Continue on a Tear?
- Larry MacDonald submits: House prices in Canada enjoyed their third consecutive monthly rise in July, with all regions contributing to the national increase for the first time in 13 months (according to the latest Teranet-National Bank National Composite House Price Index). Ottawa led the month-to-month change with a...
- External links 2009-10-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
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