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  • NFTRH 1 Year Ago, NFTRH59 Out Now by Gary Tanashian
    From NFTRH9, dated November 15, 2008:PresentDeflation is everywhere. Confidence is lost. People have been scared back into the ‘safe’ paper issued by those in whom confidence has been lost. Think about that. In the short term, in the present, safety means liquidity and refuge from... More »
    November 15, 2009 • DIA, SPY, QQQQ
  • Could the US Treasury/ benchmark risk 'decouple'? by kentpaul
    So most risk assets are apparently priced by investors off the US Treasury curve or the S&P at a minimum. If the weight of economic mass and the bulk of the growth shift to EM over the next few years then presumably so might asset price benchmarks? Equally the long US-bond at 2-4% offers no... More »
    November 2, 2009 • UUP, SPXU, SPX
  • Inflation ETFs More Trick Than Treat by Don Dion
    Trick or treat? The new inflation protection ETFs from IndexIQ are a mixed bag of securities that could be more harmful than helpful to your portfolio. As the two new funds mash together a mix of equities and ETFs, fees, strategy and risk will all be uncertain. IQ CPI Inflation Hedged ETF (CPI)... More »
    October 28, 2009 • CPI, GRES, ABX
  • Even In Slow Boring Fixed Income Investing, Hot Hands Are Still Hot by ValidFi
    Momentum effect, i.e. a phenomenon that past 'hot' funds or assets will continue to be 'hot' in a certain future period, has been widely recognized as a market inefficiency, both by practitioners and academic researchers. Momentum based  strategies have been proposed in equity (stocks),... More »
    October 12, 2009 • SHV, SHY, IEF
  • Even In Slow Boring Fixed Income Investing, Hot Hands Are Still Hot by ValidFi
    Momentum effect, i.e. a phenomenon that past 'hot' funds or assets will continue to be 'hot' in a certain future period, has been widely recognized as a market inefficiency, both by practitioners and academic researchers. Momentum based  strategies have been proposed in equity (stocks),... More »
    October 12, 2009 • SHV, SHY, IEF
  • Time to Rebalance Your Portfolios by ValidFi
    Portfolio rebalancing is perhaps the only 'free' lunch once you have set a strategic portfolio allocation based on your risk profile. Numerous articles have been published to study the pros and cons of portfolio rebalancing. The key factors behind portfolio rebalancing are: Risk and return... More »
    September 29, 2009 • SPY, MDY, VNQ
  • 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
  • Buffett Stock Market Indicator: Simple but Effective by ValidFi
    In his 2001 Fortune magazine article, Warren Buffett used the ratio of the market value of all US publically traded securities to Gross National Product (GNP) as a yardstick to measure the stock market valuation. He stated that  "The ratio has certain limitations in telling you... More »
    September 21, 2009 • TMW, VTI, SPY
  • 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
  • Commodity ETF Strategies: Now and Future by ValidFi
    Managed futures has been long recognized to be an excellent portfolio diversifier. However, long only commodity investment is not good enough. For example, in this 2008-2009 period, commodity ETFs such as DBC, GSG based on broad based commodity indexes and most of ETFs based on narrow commodity... More »
    August 23, 2009 • DBE, DBB, DBP

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