IndexUniverse submits: Three Vanguard exchange-traded funds declared a 2-1 stock split on Wednesday. The funds were: Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (AMEX: VTI); Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (AMEX: VWO), and Vanguard Extended Market ETF (AMEX: VXF). by Index Universe
IndexUniverse submits: By Heather Bell Vanguard has joined a club that previously only included Barclays Global Investors and State Street Global Advisors: On Thursday, the index fund provider launched the Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund, which comes in Investor, Institutional and—of course—ETF shares. by Index Universe
This paper investigates whether and how foreign aid facilitates Foreign Direct Investment FDI flows into less developed countries. This paper employs a large data set of source-recipient country pairs and conduct gravity equation-type estimation. This empirical methodology enables us to distinguish among three effects of aid on FDI: a positive...
This article states that whether large cap U.S. equity index funds really very different? In this article, three well known index funds: Vanguard Index 500, Schwab 1000, and Vanguard Total Stock Index are considered. As a reminder, the Vanguard Index 500 seeks to replicate the performance of the Standard &...
Dan Knight submits: Over the last year, the average SP500 stock is down about 14%, with the peak back in October. Historically during down markets, "growth" stocks tend to underperform "value", perhaps due to their greater market sensitivity beta or that value stocks are relatively cheaper in the first...
Working from a recent speech by John C. Bogle, founder and past CEO of The Vanguard Group, this paper demonstrates just how difficult it is for wealthy, taxable investors to grow their wealth at anything like the rates usually discussed by financial advisors. This paper deals with taxes.
Why deal with ETFs if one can own the same indexes without all the hassle of paying brokerage fees and spreads? Figure about 15 basis points in commissions and spreads each way. In the case of the iShares S&P 500 Index Fund, with its 9 basis-point advantage over the Vanguard...
More and more organizations today are turning to HD video communications as an everyday business communication tool. Why? Because video communications today is High Definition - the same quality as you experience on your home HDTV. And Telepresence, the new buzz word in video...
Manage your Web server security with Microsoft FrontPage. The Internet may be the vanguard of technology, but when it comes to online protection, many businesses might as well be in the Stone Age. It's surprisingly easy for hackers to download customer information, sabotage your systems, or even infiltrate your company's...
Millions of investors are under the spell of a fantasy known as beating the market. This fantasy is just as compelling as alchemy once was, because some investments do indeed beat the market some of the time. A few investments seem to do so over protracted periods. This article shows...
Gary Gordon submits: The price of gasoline isn't the only item that is inflating. The average exchange-traded fund fee has jumped from .41% one year ago to .54% today. That's not good news. After all, one of the principal reasons for owning ETFs is the cost...
Don Dion submits: With the U.S. equities markets well off their October 2007 highs, it may be surprising to learn that there has been very little let up in the pace of exchange- traded fund...
Richard Kang submits: A couple of weeks ago, I was invited by the guys at “The Market Traders” to join in on their weekly roundtable podcast as one of three guest panelists. If you check out their site, you’ll see that they’re big on commodities. Possibly a bit more...
While new economy firms like Ariba and Commerce One may have launched the B2B insurgency, its vanguard now includes a growing number of well-established brick-and-mortar corporations that have seen the challenge of the Internet and met it head on. These corporations are moving quickly to form strategic alliances within their...
Microsoft serves as a bellwether for high tech. Pioneering decisions on stock options, financial reporting, and cash payments to shareholders have now positioned it at the vanguard of the sector's financial policies and practices. The paper presents an interview which highlights that the thinking behind its financial moves and growth...
A number of papers predict the imminent demise of currency use in transactions while some make a case for its continued use due to its distinctive feature of anonymity. Notwithstanding the latter, this paper shows on both theoretical and empirical grounds, that cash use is sustainable for the foreseeable future...
"This article defines one new type of funds known as an Exchange Traded Funds ETFs are recent phenomena that started in 1993 when State Street sponsored the first ETF in the form of the SPDR Trust. At present, approximately $60 billion are invested in ETFs although new funds are...
