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  • ETFs to Challenge Money-Market Funds by Don Dion
    In the latest challenge to the mutual fund industry, Pimco has launched the Enhanced Short Maturity Strategy Fund (MINT) to compete with money-market funds. The new ETF, which Pimco notes is "intended to be a higher yielding alternative to money market funds," is actively managed and... More »
    November 24, 2009 • MINT, BSV, SHY
  • October ETF Scorecard by Don Dion
    ETF investors flocked to emerging market funds in October.While the purchase of funds like Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets (VWO) and iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) was by far the most dominant trend based on…READ MORE To access my special Market Outlook for 2010 report, click here Try... More »
    November 5, 2009 • VWO, EEM, RSX
  • How Rebalancing Added Over 2% To The Returns Of A Simple ETF Portfolio by Mitch Tuchman
    Rebalancing is a key to lower risk and higher returns because it forces the discipline and takes the emotionalism out of “buy low and sell high.”   The illustration below shows how a simple portfolio that has a target allocation of 50% bonds and 50% stocks gets rebalanced... More »
    October 14, 2009 • BIL, BIV, BLV
  • Bond Funds Price Change vs Volatility by Richard Shaw
    Stock volatility versus price change gets a lot of financial media attention, but bonds don’t get so much. Bonds are an important part of portfolios that deserve investigative attention too. This article provides data for  bond funds of various types in terms of price rate of change... More »
    September 21, 2009 • TIP, MBB, SHV
  • Background Info on Leading Bond ETFs by Richard Shaw
    We find that investors tend to have a clearer understanding of the portfolios behind equity funds than behind bond funds.  This blog post is provided to shine some light in a comparative way on the portfolios and recent performance of several leading bond ETFs. To be clear, we are not... More »
    July 15, 2009 • BND, AGG, TIP
  • What’s All UP? by Richard Shaw
    Fixed income continues to be the steady upward asset, but not all fixed income. Sorting through the 270 ETFs with at least $1 million per day in trading volume, looking for those that are strongly upward moving, we find these 13 hitting on all cylinders: [image available at QVM site] Criterion... More »
    May 21, 2009 • AGG, BND, BSV
  • Money managers abandoning buy and hold, asset class diversification by Mick Weinstein
    Very interesting (subscription only) piece in the Journal on some portfolio managers who are moving to cash, short-term treasuries, gold, structured products and market timing with leveraged ETFs:"There's a seismic change in the market," says Will Hepburn, president of the National... More »
    May 1, 2009 • GLD, BSV, BWZ

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