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Volatility Budgets: Picking Your Battles
Roger Nusbaum submits: Recently I was asked what I thought about a particular big cap tech stock that is popular with investors. The person appeared to be surprised by my answer in such a way that lead me to think that he had not heard this point before. The...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-11-23
Lessons from a Market 'En Fuego'
Roger Nusbaum submits: The stock market has clearly been en fuego for an awfully long time. As has been the the case the whole way up from March, people can spin all information available any way they want to conclude what they want - but the market has gone...
Tags: US Market, Roger Nusbaum, Caterpillar Inc., Suncor Energy
External links 2009-09-17
Interesting Stocks, Aussie-Style
Roger Nusbaum submits: On Monday morning Ansell (ANSLY.PK) reported earnings that were pretty good but the company gave mixed signals in comments about its outlook. What is Ansell? Never heard of it? Neither had I. Ansell is an Australian company, the local ticker is ANN and the ADR ticker...
Tags: Healthcare, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-08-17
Commodities: Innovation North of the Border
Roger Nusbaum submits: Yesterday's post included a reference to a small sugar company called Imperial Sugar IPSU. Right on cue a reader a comment pointing us to Rogers Sugar Income Trust (RSI-UN in Canada, or RSGUF.PK on the US pinksheets). The company is no relation to Jimmy Rogers or,...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-08-12
Fund Frustration, Huffman-Style
Roger Nusbaum submits: This week's update from John Hussman struck me as unusual. He seemed to be expressing a fair bit of frustration over how much the market has gone up in the last few months and that their various disciplines and concepts have prevented them from having more...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-08-06
China Choices
Roger Nusbaum submits: Last week for theStreet.com I wrote an article about investing in China via ETFs or stocks, and the heavy weighting in financial stocks that some of the China funds have. A reader asked me about using iShares Hong Kong EWH as a proxy for China, so...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-08-04
The Consequence of Caution
Roger Nusbaum submits: Last October I first wrote about the publicly traded Norwegian fisheries. I was immediately intrigued but needed to learn more about them.After that first post they kept going down a little longer but you can see from the chart that YTD they have been...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-07-23
Will New Zealand Emerge from Recession First?
Roger Nusbaum submits: It has been a while since posting anything about New Zealand as an investment destination. I used to write a lot more about the country. The economy is much different than that of the US, except for maybe the deficits. NZ is a much simpler economy...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-07-20
The New Equal-Weight ETF Could Mean Inequities for Your Portfolio
Roger Nusbaum submits: First, talking about the new equalweight ETF EQL: We are in Newport, Oregon. The video (sorry for the poor audio, by the way) was shot at Cannon Beach. Reader JCarr just asked it if made more sense to own the underlying stocks instead...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-07-10
China as an Investment Destination
Roger Nusbaum submits: IndexUniverse had an article up Monday about the rebalancing at Russell Investments that occurs every June and was just implemented for 2009. IU seemed most interested in the increasing presence of Chinese stocks.The five largest stocks in the Russell Global Index (I'm not familiar with this...
Tags: China, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-06-30
Why Foreign Investing Should Be Labor-Intensive
Roger Nusbaum submits: We have a fenced-in pen off of our deck for the dogs to have a little bit of room to explore and play. A couple of weeks ago our two smallest dogs got out after something (maybe a squirrel?) dug a small hole in from the...
Tags: US Market, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-06-29
What You and I Can Learn from the Endowment Blowups
Roger Nusbaum submits: Barron's was a keeper this weekend. Of most interest was an article about the latest trials and tribulations of the university endowments and an interview with the guy running CALPERS these days. First up is the CALPERS interview. There was a money quote and the...
Tags: US Market, Financial, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-06-29
Buying SDS to Hedge the Downside
Roger Nusbaum submits: Tuesday was the second day that the S&P 500 closed below its 200 DMA, not by much though. I had the share amounts for an [[SDS]] purchase all sorted out and the day ended up being a will I or won't I.In early May I bought...
Tags: US Market, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-06-24
ETFs: Yes, They Have Their Drawbacks Too
Roger Nusbaum submits: Despite the title of this post I'm sure that most people that have read my stuff know that I am a huge fan of ETFs. They allow people willing to spend the time to build very sophisticated portfolios that by and large avoid single stock risk....
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-09-02
The Advantage of Investing in Chile and Brazil
Roger Nusbaum submits: We have this article about the Chilean stock market. The article notes that Chile has lagged some of the other Latin American markets this year, which it has. The chart covers two years and reveals some interesting action. The big reason I invest in Chile,...
Tags: Emerging Markets, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-09-15
Small Caps in Malaysia? There's an ETF for That
Roger Nusbaum submits: IndexIQ is coming out of the gate as a bit of an enigma. The new Merger Arbitrage ETF MNA at first glance seems odd to me. There have been several articles already that have ripped it up for not really being an arbitrage product and I...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-11-20
Bernanke: There Are No Bubbles
Roger Nusbaum submits: Sweet Fancy Moses. I am not a big fan of the word bubble, as I think it gets overused. Not everything that goes up a lot and then goes down a lot is a bubble. In all likelihood, the best time to really assess whether something...
Tags: US Market, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-11-17
A Build America ETF and Why New Zealand Can Speak Freely
Roger Nusbaum submits: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was on CNBC Asia Friday morning giving a lengthy and very candid interview. He talked about the run up in the kiwi dollar and how it would be helpful for it to correct the other way. He spelled out specific...
Tags: ETF, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-11-13
Lessons from Recession
Roger Nusbaum submits: By now you've heard about India buying 200 tonnes of gold from the IMF. Alphaville quoted the Indian Finance Minister as sayingm "the European and US economies had 'collapsed.'" Alphaville also noted that this was "the strongest signal yet that Asian countries are moving away from...
Tags: US Market, Roger Nusbaum
External links 2009-11-05
Shifting into Recovery-Oriented Stocks
Roger Nusbaum submits: We said goodbye to a dear old friend a few days ago by swapping out of Plum Creek Timber PCL and into American Tower AMT. The reason why I owned PCL at all, actually there were several reasons, was because timberland generally has a low correlation...
Tags: US Market, Roger Nusbaum, American Tower Corp., Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc.
External links 2009-11-03