Contrarian Profits

The Top Ten ETFs for Decoupling 2.0

During the first quarter, Harvard University’s billion-dollar endowment fund engineered a dramatic shift in its endowment-fund investment strategy - boosting its stakes in some of the most prominent emerging market ETFs, including:

* $50.9 million in Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO)
* $1.5 million more iShares MSCI Brazil Index ETF (NYSE: EWZ)
* $1.1 million more into in iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF (NYSE: FXI)
* $877,700 into Van Eck’s Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (NYSE: RSX)
* $817,300 into iShares MSCI Mexico Index Index (NYSE: EWW)
* $390,400 more into iShares MSCI South Africa Index (NYSE: EZA)

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Bespoke's Commodity Snapshot (6/10/08)

Over the last six summers, gold has bottomed somewhere between mid-May and mid-July. In most cases, the bottom has been between late June and mid-July with two exceptions. Check out this chart...

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