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  • Tweaking Nusbaum's El-Erian Portfolio via ETFs [View article]
    Exchange traded funds, or ETF’s, were one of the hot financial products of 2008, and enable investors to go 100% or 200% long or short any number of indexes, sub indexes, industry groups, bonds, currencies, and commodities. The largest issuers have been Barclay’s iShares, State Street’s StreetTracks SPDR’s, Rydex, and PowerShares. Sponsors of ETF’s have filed for registration of another 850 such products, including ETF’s for many new single country funds for Columbia, Egypt, Argentina, Peru, and the Nordic countries. Charles Schwab (SCHW) has also announced that it is entering this field for the first time. These will allow fund managers to make more narrow and specific bets in the capital markets. But they will also increase market volatility, as they obviously did last year.
    Feb 25 14:06 pm |Rating: 0 -5 |Link to Comment
  • Tweaking Nusbaum's El-Erian Portfolio via ETFs [View article]
    Gold finally hit a wall just above $1,000, and instantly melted $50. For many traders who got in just above $700 three months ago, it’s time to say thank you very much to Mr. Market and either wait for a substantial pull back, or go on to the next trade. It was taking increasingly larger purchases of physical gold by ETF’s and coins by individuals to push the price up. CME statistics showed the speculators’ position soared to a net long of 215,661 contracts ($21.5 billion). The SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD) added five tonnes of the barbaric relic to 1,029 tonnes in just one day. The turnaround neatly sets up a double top on the long term charts with the high set last year. It may take a couple of more runs, and more bad news, which seems in abundant supply, to get the yellow metal to a true new high.
    Feb 25 12:14 pm |Rating: +1 -3 |Link to Comment
  • Safe Retirement Investments for 2009 [View article]
    If you believe that imminent and massive Treasury issuance is going to pop the Treasury bond bubble, and that Obama’s reflationary policies are long term inflationary, you have to be looking at Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. TIPS offer investors a US government guaranteed protection against future price hikes by raising the principal in line with the inflation rate. A 3% coupon TIPS facing a 10% inflation rate automatically boosts the face value of your bond from an issue price of 100 to 110, giving you a total return of 13%. You can buy these directly from the US Treasury, or buy the iShares Lehman TIPS Bond Fund (TIP). The best time to buy flood insurance is at the end of a long drought.
    Feb 23 01:04 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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