iShares S&P Global Healthcare Sector (IXJ)

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    cheesecake
    Apr 08 04:02 AM
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    Have We Bottomed Yet? [view article]
    excellent article. my thinking is running close to yours. Reply
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    SeekingAlpha
    Editors
    Apr 06 05:16 AM
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    General Discussion on IXJ
    Is this a buy or a sell? Reply
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    Roger Beep
    Mar 28 11:57 AM
    Fixing Target Date Strategies: 'Target Date Folios' [view article]
    Geoff;

    As an addendum to this paper I would like to see a comparison of the cumulative life time fees associated with the seven target date funds mentioned compared to forecasted return. How much and what percent 'draw down' do the fees have on each fund mentioned?
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    kg_alpha
    Mar 27 03:09 AM
    Fixing Target Date Strategies: 'Target Date Folios' [view article]
    It appears that IYE, which is listed as one of the 17 ETFs components in your article, is not included in the 16 ETFs universe that serves the Folio's. Any reason for the departure? Reply
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    Roger Beep
    Mar 26 02:00 PM
    Fixing Target Date Strategies: 'Target Date Folios' [view article]
    For the vast majority of investors who are starting out the ‘Target Date Folios’ concept would seem to take the angst out investing and portfolio planning, putting things on autopilot. I have a few questions in the form of ‘system checks’ before one is on the glide path. (1) Initially how is investor’s risk tolerance determined? (2) How are other systems checked out prior to embarking on the glide path; these are embedded financial systems such as household cash flow or budget that may utilize another kind of asset allocation plan. Does FOLIOfn work with their clients and assist them in the development of these subsystems? (3) How often and how is glide path error correction factored into the process over the years? As I recall ESP Planner was an effort at optimizing some of these embedded factors. In that vein, are there similar investor financial systems checks in FOLIOfn’s planning that provides for glide path error correction over the years? Aside from these questions the concept and FOLIOfn’s product seems like a breakthrough for individual investors and the article is exceptionally well written. Reply
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    manhapf
    Mar 25 06:53 PM
    Fixing Target Date Strategies: 'Target Date Folios' [view article]
    Wow! Very well written article Geoff! Concise, comprehensive and persuasive. Reply
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    hook
    Mar 15 10:40 AM
    What Sectors Are Benefiting from the Bounce? [view article]
    what bounce guys? Reply
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    Briggsy
    Mar 14 07:41 PM
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    What Sectors Are Benefiting from the Bounce? [view article]
    Ames, that's called your head bouncing off resistance. Reply
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    Ames
    Tiedeman
    Mar 14 05:08 PM
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    What Sectors Are Benefiting from the Bounce? [view article]
    The only bounce you are going to see is a bounce to lower lows. Reply
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    lazytrader
    Mar 02 10:54 PM
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    Country vs. Sector Diversification with ETFs [view article]
    Foreign ETFs are big contributors to my balanced portfolio, however, what I find more often than not is that many of these ETFs have high concentrations on specific sectors - e.g. financials or oil & gas, etc. which leads to eliminating them from a balanced portfolio consideration due to high correlation to other domestic ETFs. ILF is one of the more profitable components I've been using recently. See my full portfolio at notiming.com Reply
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    Geoff
    Considine
    Feb 26 03:44 PM
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    Outlook for Select Sector ETFs [view article]
    Just for an interesting update for this article, check out how the top two rated ETF's have performed relative to the bottom two since this article was written:

    finance.yahoo.com/q/bc...

    TIP and DJP are up and EEM and EFA are down. Anecdotal evidence? Definitely. But notable nonetheless.     Reply
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    granger
    Feb 13 11:42 AM
    Global Sector ETF Spread [view article]
    Good stuff, thank you Reply
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    granger
    Jan 31 12:49 PM
    Country vs. Sector Diversification with ETFs [view article]
    Great info, thank you. I loved it. Reply
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    User 123686
    Nov 18 11:13 PM
    An All-ETF Portfolio With Exposure To Narrow Themes [view article]
    ben stein just recommended using etf's for investors it could be helpful for new research my vote create new tks bill Reply
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    d_teller
    Nov 01 03:02 PM
    Outlook for Select Sector ETFs [view article]
    TIPs are way under compensated for the social and systemic risks of their "bonds) BWX might be a better, uncorrelated asset (sovereign bonds of developed countries).

    Why do I claim TIPs are uncompensated? Because of the neglect of infrastructure and built in social hazard of MP3/education: RAP/reading comprehension: direct taxation of an underestimated core CPI (The economists, who are politically charged to keep the CPI down, have continuously included "product improvement" in their costs. Tell me, is a GPS to tell someone who can't read a map and doesn't know where they're going ... an "improvement"... is a drop down videoscreen to keep the brats happy, (because familial supervision has been put in assisted living) an "improvement"... (Are granite countertops better than insulation, and removal of wind/firehazards from the property?)
    Is it better for the Federal Govt to steal an immigrant's savings than for some street thug to rob an undocumented Guatemalan?

    Should we include the qtr pt of GDP lost to the stupid choke points of underfunded airports (left to commercial carriers to expand) shipping ports and wonderful new LNG depots ...vs. diverting grain from livestock to ethanol. Or maybe they'll actually get a nuclear waste storage facility, so one could expand the dormant nuclear power plant construction...or get the standards ENFORCED for the safe construction/operation of a refienery? Or perhaps we should also take another quarter percent off for the health care costs of unstandardized results vs focus on contracts? Or perhaps another half a percent because the innovation we used to admire in health, education and social standards has been replaced by entitlements and sly greed...which is not a goal that I'd want for an immigrant.

    Or maybe we should admit that risk is all around; no one owes us a living, there's no "pill for stupidity" and there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

    The lack of federal funding and regional security for natural hazard reinsurance and infrastructure maintenance ensures reversion to mediocrity. The C.P.I. is wayyy underestimated; has been for a generation. Worse... TIPs are taxed at implied gain and not compensated for deflating dollar value.     Reply
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