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iShares Lehman 1-3 Year Credit Bond Fund (CSJ)

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  • 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
  • Market Timing Strategies Based on Financial and Sentiment Indicators by ValidFi
    Market timing strategies have been controversial: academics published many studies in this subject and most of them concluded that it is useless to pursue market timing. On the other hand, practitioners have been using this for many years (explicitly or implicitly). In a paper published by... More »
    September 16, 2009 • BWX, CFT, CIU
  • Portfolio Diversification over Diverse Asset Classes with Multiple Investment Strategies by ValidFi
    The 2008 markets taught us a valuable lesson that just merely holding once considered 'diversified' assets in a portfolio is not sufficient or, at best is very difficult,  to reduce the systemic risk: during the 2008 market stress, almost all of assets (other than the US treasuries and... More »
    July 27, 2009 • SPY, MDY, IWR
  • 11 Months After the Oil Bubble Burst by Moby Waller
    Oil prices peaked out around $147 a barrel on July 11, 2008.  We are now about 11 months after that bubble burst, and Oil has recently climbed as high as $70 a barrel.  A scan of the best and worst performing ETFs over a 52 week time frame (excluding Ultra and Short ETFs) shows the... More »
    June 11, 2009 • UNG, USO, PSP
  • 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

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