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The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
3 Strategies That Beat the Market Alternatives to index funds did well since 2000, but will they keep up the pace?  |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Marla Brill |
New Indexes Nudge Out Old Favorites Advisors who have moved into alternative indexes are finding unique ways to use them.  |
Financial Advisor September 2011 Tom Lydon |
It's All In The Weighting ETF indexing has evolved, but the traditional, somewhat boring approach may still yield the best results.  |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2011 Michael Johnston |
Understanding the Quirks of QQQQ QQQQ -- better known as the "cubes" -- has become a popular option for investors looking to gain exposure to growth companies and the tech sector in general.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Better Way to Beat the Market? The jury's still out on alternative indexes. Different market conditions will make index funds perform in various ways.  |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel |
57 Flavors of Funds New versions of ETFs mean more choices for investors.  |
Registered Rep. February 15, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Fundamental Indexes Have Had a Good Run. Converted Yet? Proponents claimed that fundamental ETFs and mutual funds would outdo the S&P 500 and other traditional benchmarks. Critics scoffed. But now many of the funds have significant track records, and the results are promising.  |
Investment Advisor February 2010 Vaughan Scully |
The ETF Advisor: S&P 500 ETFs While some S&P 500 Index funds are virtually identical to the SPDR fund, a handful of other ETFs offers more substantial modifications to the original formula.  |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Is Your Index Fund Behaving Stupidly? You don't have to settle for investment allocations in your funds that you don't like.  |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Ralph Casale |
Not Your Father's Index Funds A number of investment vehicles, mostly ETFs, have been designed to take advantage of alternate company weighting in an index.  |
Financial Advisor April 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
A Look At New Horizons At a time when the margin for error is growing thinner and thinner in investment management circles, some are asking whether advisors and their clients are adequately served by cap-weighted benchmarks.  |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2011 Michael Johnston |
Dividend ETF Investing: Mid-Cap Options These dividend paying ETFs are worth a look.  |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
Fundamental Indexing During the 1990s, S&P 500 index funds were all the rage -- and, for most core investments, the bogey to beat. But lately the index has been offering stingy returns.  |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
How to Pick the Best ETFs With so many choices, you can't afford to just grab the first one you see. Here's how to pick smarter.  |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn |
ETF Mania! As the number of exchange-traded funds explodes, planners are deploying them to bring sophisticated institutional strategies to affluent clients.  |
Financial Planning June 1, 2009 Richard A. Ferri |
Mapping Indexes Today's advisors can best serve their clients with a working knowledge of the various index methodologies. Unfortunately, this is no easy task.  |
Investment Advisor November 2006 Kathleen M. McBride |
Fundamental Indexing Goes Main Street Index investing has traditionally been linked to capital-weighted indexes, whereby a company's market cap determines how much of a company actually got into an index. And that's the fatal flaw in conventional index-linked investing.  |
Financial Planning March 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Weight Watchers New equity indexes, weighed by fundamental factors, are challenging the conventions of passive investing.  |
The Motley Fool December 18, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Improving on Index Funds As the fund universe continues to evolve, new funds have emerged that try to improve on their first-generation counterparts. One fund in particular has its sights set high -- the Rydex S&P Equal Weight ETF.  |
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Vaughan Scully |
Quantitative Methodology ETFs Search for Better Performance A new breed of ETF has emerged, based on indices that are designed not to reflect the investable universe of a particular market niche, but to pick the best stocks within a specific sector or style.  |
The Motley Fool December 14, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Simple Ways to Win With Large Caps Put together a great set of investments in just a few steps by using exchange traded funds.  |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Jared Cummans |
Simplifying Investing: 5 All Cap ETF Options Get exposure in all the right places.  |
The Motley Fool May 8, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Lights Out for Dividend ETFs? Funds fell into the dividend trap, but that doesn't mean the idea is bad.  |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Make Money in Large Caps the Better Way There's no need to guess which company will perform best when you can invest in 500 all at once.  |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2011 Cindy Johnson |
It's Time to Sell Your Small-Cap Stocks Large-cap valuations are unusually attractive.  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Beyond Benchmarks Tracking alternative indexes can add a flavor of active management to the ETF menu.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Tom Lydon |
Slow Build Companies have lined up to introduce active ETFs, but so far less than 1% of ETF assets are in these products.  |
Registered Rep. May 28, 2013 Brad Zigler |
When Equal Weight Makes Sense Choosing whether to invest in an equal-weight fund or capitalization-weighted fund of the same index can have a profound impact on returns.  |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2009 Chris Jones |
Could These ETFs Be Your Ticket to Better Returns? Can revenue-weighted ETFs consistently beat the market?  |
Financial Advisor February 2006 Matt Hougan |
Is `Buy The Market' Best? Enhanced indexers say they have the way to go the market one (or two) better. Financial advisors, take note.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
How to Build a Better S&P 500 As terrific as S&P 500 index funds can be, they're not perfect. But a newer, potentially better kind of index fund could help fix one of their biggest weaknesses.  |
Registered Rep. January 26, 2010 Brad Zigler |
The Price Is NOT (Always) Right As every financial advisor -- indeed every investor -- knows, there is a difference between price and value.  |
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 John Sullivan |
The Equal Weight Evangelist Tony Davidow, Rydex|SGI's new ETF strategist, is bringing his equal weight message to the masses  |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Easy Way to Find Big Dividends Choosing a solid dividend ETF can help you diversify your portfolio while giving you the benefits that dividend-payers offer.  |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Going Beyond the Index Rather than using a weighted index based on the market cap of the component stocks, WisdomTree ETFs base their portfolio allocations for index components on fundamental aspects of those stocks, such as dividend yield and company earnings.  |
Financial Advisor August 2009 Marla Brill |
Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices.  |
Registered Rep. June 7, 2011 Stan Luxenberg |
Concentrated ETFs PowerShares QQQ has been racing ahead. During the past five years ending March, the ETF has returned 7 percent annually, outdoing the average large growth mutual fund by 4 percentage points  |
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Tom Lydon |
ETFs and Liquidity: A Primer If you're an advisor concerned about liquidity in low-volume ETFs, you're not helpless. Among your options is using the services of alternate liquidity providers.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2010 William Atkinson |
Pick Me Financial planners have their own processes for selecting individual stocks for their clients. And given that mutual funds have been around for decades, planners also have their favorite fund families. However, ETFs are a different animal.  |
The Motley Fool July 31, 2007 Zoe Van Schyndel |
A Japan ETF With a Fundamental Twist The PowerShares FTSE RAFI Japan ETF, is different from the rest of the ETF options focused on the land of the rising sun.  |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2011 Michael Johnston |
XTL: A Better Telecom ETF? For those who want to cast a wider net with telecom exposure, the S&P SPDR Telecom ETF may have some appeal.  |
Registered Rep. February 4, 2011 Diana Britton |
ETF Goliaths Better Watch Out for the Davids Every month, the universe of exchange-traded products is expanding and taking market share from the mutual fund industry.  |
Financial Advisor December 2007 Marla Brill |
The New Indexing Maze The mushrooming ETF market has spawned a new breed of indexes that represent a radical departure from traditional benchmarks in both their construction and purpose.  |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2011 Eric Dutram |
FBZ: A Better Brazil ETF? While EWZ and FBZ offer exposure to the same South American market, these funds are quite different in a number of different ways.  |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2011 Jared Cummans |
A Glimpse Into Goldman Sachs' ETF Holdings Will Goldman's ETF holdings surprise you?  |
Financial Advisor October 2012 Marla Brill |
Don't Rule Out Smaller ETFs Many have unique investment methodologies that offer alternatives to traditional indexes.  |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Make the Right Investment Every Time Even after close examination, it can be hard to tell many investments apart. Therefore, how can you ensure that you make the best choice every time?  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel |
ETFs: From DOG to DOO The ETF market may contain DOG and DOO, but it also holds funds like the PowerShares HighYield Dividend Achievers -- an investment that we can only hope will live up to its ticker symbol (PEY), over and over again.  |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2011 Michael Johnston |
7 Surprising ETF Holdings: Why Investors Should Always Look Under the Hood Don't let these ETFs' holdings surprise you later.  |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Chris Jones |
This Could Help You Beat the Market These equal-weight index funds and ETFs have an enviable track record.  |