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Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries (Part II) by Suna Reyent
This piece is part of an ongoing project to identify countries that have a potential to provide high investment returns while exposing investors to less market risk. It constitutes part two of “Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries” series published by Seeking Alpha last week.Ever... More »
December 21, 2009 • CEE, ECH, EEM
International Stock Investing: Diversified Timing on Country ETFs by ValidFi
In our previous article, we alluded that in a diversified portfolio, putting a long term timing indicator such as 10 month simple moving average on risky assets such as stocks, commodities could effectively reduce risk (i.e. big loss) while improving return. Investors are in a heightened state... More »
December 20, 2009 • EFA, EPP, EWC
Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries In The Investment Universe: Part I by Suna Reyent
A year ago, Seeking Alpha published a piece of mine entitled “Calculating Country Risk Observed By Betas”. Since equity markets tend to go up and down in a synchronous fashion with the world markets, owning a country risk itself means owning a piece of the general “market... More »
December 13, 2009 • EPI, CEE, ECH
Old Normal Allocation Becomes New Normal? by Richard Shaw
The old normal allocation between the three most basic classes (Cash, Bonds and Stocks) is currently the new normal. While the old normal return expectations for U.S. securities, and the allocation between U.S. securities and global securities (particularly emerging market securities) is not... More »
November 17, 2009 • SPY, MDY, EWU
ETF Ideas for the Upcoming Trading Week by Don Dion
Three ETFs that should be considered this coming week are AMJ, EWL, and SLX. I have covered them in some detail in my blog to the left over…READ MORE To access my special Market Outlook for 2010 report, click here More »
October 12, 2009 • EWL, AMJ, SLX
UBS & Credit Suisse: Capital Flight Fears Unfounded, For Now by Rakesh Saxena
Between the billions of dollars lost in valuations and the thousands of investors who simply said goodbye to the markets since September last year, nobody is quite sure how much of estimated $7 trillion of privately-held “offshore” wealth still rests in Switzerland. But Swiss banking... More »
October 6, 2009 • CS, EWL, UBS
Christmas Lights Are Up: Don’t Bother With Europe For Now by Rakesh Saxena
Roberto Baggio (Seeking Alpha, September 24, 2009, Ten Reasons for an Imminent Stock Market Crash) wonders if someone has “waved a magic wand and fixed Europe’s problems overnight.” Well, in beautiful Riga, which lays claims to putting up the first evergreen Christmas tree in... More »
October 4, 2009 • DAX, EWD, EWG
Trend Condition of Country Funds by Richard Shaw
There were some substantial price moves today for many country and region funds. How do they look now relative to their 200-day simple moving averages? The chart below shows the ratio of the price to the 200-day average, and the 100-day average to the 200-day average, for 35 country and... More »
August 17, 2009 • VT, EFA, VWO
Seeking safety and alpha at the same time by Gary Griswold
High risk and high return are generally understood to go together, but are there exceptions? Are there ways to find a higher return with a lower risk? The strategy described here is to select countries based upon a positive current account as a percentage of the countries own... More »
June 30, 2009 • EWS, EWM, EWT
Which Way’d They Go? by Richard Shaw
Saying it’s better to buy when securities are going up than when they are going down is easy. Actually determining what is up and what is down is not quite as easy. We have said and wish to reiterate that you should buy makes good sense to own for fundamental reasons when it is going... More »
June 26, 2009 • BND, MUB, IEF

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iShares MSCI Switzerland Index (EWL)

Instablog posts on EWL

Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries (Part II) by Suna Reyent

International Stock Investing: Diversified Timing on Country ETFs by ValidFi

Seeking High-Alpha, Low-Beta Countries In The Investment Universe: Part I by Suna Reyent

Old Normal Allocation Becomes New Normal? by Richard Shaw

ETF Ideas for the Upcoming Trading Week by Don Dion

UBS & Credit Suisse: Capital Flight Fears Unfounded, For Now by Rakesh Saxena

Christmas Lights Are Up: Don’t Bother With Europe For Now by Rakesh Saxena

Trend Condition of Country Funds by Richard Shaw

Seeking safety and alpha at the same time by Gary Griswold

Which Way’d They Go? by Richard Shaw

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