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for the record, it is also unreported and less covered that India is also facing severe labor shortage, particularly in North India. As an example of a coverage in a US paper, see: www.philly.com/philly/...
I am from North India, but now based in the US. For the last 5 years, every time I used to talk to my dad who runs a business he has been complaining about labor shortage and eventually decided that he had enough of labor issues, shut his business and took early retirement.
my guess is that this is just an issue that happens with high growth countries, not withstanding the population.
China: Are Labor Shortages Threatening the Most Populous Nation on Earth? [View article]
for the record, it is also unreported and less covered that India is also facing severe labor shortage, particularly in North India. As an example of a coverage in a US paper, see: www.philly.com/philly/...
I am from North India, but now based in the US. For the last 5 years, every time I used to talk to my dad who runs a business he has been complaining about labor shortage and eventually decided that he had enough of labor issues, shut his business and took early retirement.
The main issue is that India which typically has 2 years of stock is now down to only 44 days of cotton stock as per recent statistics. India is the 2nd largest producer after USA.
This is very interesting. There is however one issue: the returns from pair trades are usually low and a retail investor may have to pay a lot more on the margin and tie up a significant capital. It might be better to provide some leveraged version of these trades as a separate ETF.
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In addition to my above post, I should add that there is fee waiver from Blackrock on these allocation & target date ETFs of 0.14% till June 30, 2011 after which the expense ratios will rise further to 0.30% + 0.14% = 0.44%.
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You are misleading the readers on the expense ratio of the allocation and the target date ETFs.
For these target date and those allocation ETF, you have just included the expense ratio of the product, but the product itself invests in underlying products with further expense ratio. Take the example of iShares S&P Target Date 2040. The overall expense ratio as you listed is 0.11%, but lets also add the expense ratio of the holdings:
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What a stupid concept! No wonder none of the ETFs attracted any volumes. I wouldn't be surprised if the two more funds fail as well. These 5 ETFs have had the lowest volumes of any ETF launches that I have seen, and likely even the lowest day 1 volumes seen in recent times.
Interesting idea, but too low volumes hurt other investors. I tend to believe that two things if different could have helped
1. the spin-off index was nevertheless a long only product and has to compete with huge number of other long only products. a better alternative could have been a product capturing the out-performance of the spin-off index and say their parent companies or say the broader market.
2. secondly, even if you had a product on the outperformance of spin-off vs say their parent (which resembles more of a strategy), the volatility is going to be low because this is a hedged strategy. to attract sufficient retail clients, you need to add leverage - say 2x or better 3x or 4x versions of this.
Essentially something different than a long only twist (e.g. DBV or QAI which gained more traction recently), and something to match the volatility of FAS or EDC.
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i hope you keep it up as and when more VIX based products are launched !!
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Maximum Volatility can be easily done if they just offer the 2x leveraged version of the Minimum Volatility indices ...
China: Are Labor Shortages Threatening the Most Populous Nation on Earth? [View article]
I am from North India, but now based in the US. For the last 5 years, every time I used to talk to my dad who runs a business he has been complaining about labor shortage and eventually decided that he had enough of labor issues, shut his business and took early retirement.
my guess is that this is just an issue that happens with high growth countries, not withstanding the population.
China: Are Labor Shortages Threatening the Most Populous Nation on Earth? [View article]
I am from North India, but now based in the US. For the last 5 years, every time I used to talk to my dad who runs a business he has been complaining about labor shortage and eventually decided that he had enough of labor issues, shut his business and took early retirement.
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Can you share with us the tool or the software or the website you used to get the above information?
Kind Regards
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For these target date and those allocation ETF, you have just included the expense ratio of the product, but the product itself invests in underlying products with further expense ratio. Take the example of iShares S&P Target Date 2040. The overall expense ratio as you listed is 0.11%, but lets also add the expense ratio of the holdings:
iShares S&P 500 INDEX 53.99% * 0.09% = 0.0486%
iShares MSCI EAFE INDEX 16.11% * 0.35% = 0.0564%
iShares BARCLAYS AGG BOND 10.24% * 0.24% = 0.0246%
iShares S&P SMALLCAP 600 7.86% * 0.21% = 0.0165%
iShares S&P MIDCAP 400 5.88% * 0.20% = 0.0118%
iShares MSCI EMERGING MKT IN 3.19% * 0.72% = 0.0230%
iShares COHEN & STEERS RLTY 1.53% *0.35% = 0.0054%
iShares BARCLAYS SHORT TREASUR 1.08% *0.15% = 0.0016%
Total expense ratio = 0.11% + (0.0486%+0.0564%+0.024...
=0.11% + 0.19% (rounding off)
=0.30%.
0.30% is still small, but more noticeable than 0.11%.
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1. the spin-off index was nevertheless a long only product and has to compete with huge number of other long only products. a better alternative could have been a product capturing the out-performance of the spin-off index and say their parent companies or say the broader market.
2. secondly, even if you had a product on the outperformance of spin-off vs say their parent (which resembles more of a strategy), the volatility is going to be low because this is a hedged strategy. to attract sufficient retail clients, you need to add leverage - say 2x or better 3x or 4x versions of this.
Essentially something different than a long only twist (e.g. DBV or QAI which gained more traction recently), and something to match the volatility of FAS or EDC.