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- Watch Expenses & Spreads For HealthShares, PowerShares, WisdomTree ETFs [view article]
- ETF Industry Data Summary: 1H'08 [view article]
- ETFs Make Little Headway into 401(k) Plans [view article]
- Why Have Most Investment Advisers Been Slow to Adopt ETFs? [view article]
- ETF Top 10 Lists: Fastest Growing, Largest By Net Assets, Top Providers [view article]
- ETF Overload: How Much of It Will Stick? [view article]
- ETF Watch: New Listings (May 7-14) [view article]
- Wisdom Tree Puts Forth New ETF Shoots, But Shows Some Earnings Blight [view article]
- WisdomTree and Dreyfus Team Up to Launch Currency ETFs [view article]
- WisdomTree's India ETF Starts Off Strong [view article]
- The ETF Industry is Losing Assets Quickly [view article]
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- Wisdom Tree Going Straight?
- ETF Industry Data Summary: 1H'08
- ETFs Make Little Headway into 401(k) Plans
- Why Have Most Investment Advisers Been Slow to Adopt ETFs?
- ETF Asset Flows Year-To-Date: Wow Is the Word
- YTD ETF Asset Flows: Vanguard, ProShares Lead the Way
- ETF Overload: How Much of It Will Stick?
- WisdomTree Launches First U.S. Money Market ETF
- ETF Watch: New Listings (May 7-14)
- Wisdom Tree Puts Forth New ETF Shoots, But Shows Some Earnings Blight
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Watch Expenses & Spreads For HealthShares, PowerShares, WisdomTree ETFs [view article]
Check out this article on HHV-- www.greenfaucet.com/tr...The author choose it, along with HHK and HHD, as his top picks for Healthcare ETFs. Reply
General Discussion on WSDT.PK
What do you guys make of the rcent NYC pension announcement? Start of something big here or just an isolated contract.? Thanks ReplyETF Industry Data Summary: 1H'08 [view article]
I think it is great that more investors are investing in ETFs. I just shows that the market players are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of ETFs over Mutual Funds and individual stocks. I hope to see the numbers grow over the next few years. ReplyETF Industry Data Summary: 1H'08 [view article]
quick onceover suggests investors are getting more savvyin both diversification, including leveraged funds, bonds, etc
and intolerance to excessive costs (vanguard flies vs bgi, ssga, holdrs; or at fund level: e.g. vwo vs eem)
p.s. freudian slip?
"total ETF asses"?
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ETFs Make Little Headway into 401(k) Plans [view article]
As one of the few if not only 100% ETF provider in the marketplace, ING Direct's ShareBuilder 401k leverages proprietary technology to manage the fractional share and transaction cost issues that only a few providers have figured out to date. While many providers focus on the need to facilitate intraday trading, the most important piece is providing broad-based, index approach to investing at the lowest expense. ETFs often are lower expense than index mutual funds. Cost matters and that cost difference provides real value to participants. Over time, ETFs will continue to make bigger and bigger footholds into 401(k) portfolios. ReplyWhy Have Most Investment Advisers Been Slow to Adopt ETFs? [view article]
Old codger RIA's who grew up on stock-picking eventually accepted no-load mutual funds as part of their strategies to mix in with individual stocks. ETF's are next.RIA's need to sell the fact that individual products like ETF's are the ingredients and the RIA is the one who makes the stew. Making the stew gets you a fee. There is differentiation when you mix in some individual stocks, with some well-chosen mutual funds & some ETF's. A client will see that unique mix and be willing to pay -- while sticking a client 100% into a global asset allocation ETF will not work for the advisor in terms of a fee.
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Why Have Most Investment Advisers Been Slow to Adopt ETFs? [view article]
Well, doesn't that confirm every bad suspicion you've ever had about RIA's? ReplyETF Top 10 Lists: Fastest Growing, Largest By Net Assets, Top Providers [view article]
Usually, i rely on FRC in Boston for ETF research and data... ReplyETF Overload: How Much of It Will Stick? [view article]
The original idea of ETF's was for us average Joe's to invest in the indices, so we didn't have to mess with options and futures. Also, expenses were low. Now, with all these specialty ETF's, it's like mutual funds, if ya don't know what you're doing, you can lose your shirt. And these specialty ones are charging increasing expense fees.I'm going to stick with the tried and true ones that follow the indices.
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ETF Watch: New Listings (May 7-14) [view article]
BZF: the Fund intends to achieve exposure to Brazilian currency markets byinvesting primarily in short term U.S. money market securities and forward currency
contracts and swaps. The combination of U.S. money market securities with forward
currency contracts and currency swaps is designed to create a position economically
similar to a money market security denominated in Brazilian Real. A forward currency
contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specific currency at a future date at a price set at
the time of the contract. A currency swap is an agreement between two parties to
exchange one currency for another at a future rate.
One is not "buying the Reai." Reply
Wisdom Tree Puts Forth New ETF Shoots, But Shows Some Earnings Blight [view article]
Thanks Ric. Now I no longer have to depend on their press releases to get AUM information. ReplyWisdom Tree Puts Forth New ETF Shoots, But Shows Some Earnings Blight [view article]
Asif, If you go to their website and click on ETF they update their AUM daily. The last one is 4.86. ReplyWisdom Tree Puts Forth New ETF Shoots, But Shows Some Earnings Blight [view article]
Ric, since operating loss included over $3 million in stock-based compensation, you are right that actual cash burn is around $5 to $6 million and even if AUM stays the same, they should have 7 to 8 quarters provided expenses do not increase (highly unlikely).Tim, my table was based entirely on the numbers reported in WisdomTree press releases as I have not been able to find an alternate way to find their AUM. The gap from May 2007 to Jan 2008 was on account of the fact that I did not find AUM information in press releases during that time period.
Ric, where did you find the $4.9 billion AUM number from yesterday. Reply
Wisdom Tree Puts Forth New ETF Shoots, But Shows Some Earnings Blight [view article]
I think the AUM growth is highly dynamic which not only depends on actual "units" sold but also whether the market is up or down. Clearly their early "growth" was the market going up. Notice that their AUM is close to 4.9 billion (as of yesterday). The foreign currency ETFs may have something to do with it but the market has also gone up? It would be nice if one were able to calculate the net ETF units bought by investors. ReplyWisdom Tree Puts Forth New ETF Shoots, But Shows Some Earnings Blight [view article]
I came to essentially the same conclusion on burn rate.Asif your chart makes it look like growth has just slowed. By having nearly a year long gap it misses that AUM peaked last fall and then fell for a while while the markets tumbled. The volatility of growth makes it hard to estimate what future rate of AUM growth to use in a model. I still don't see cash break even until about $11 billion and profitability until about $15 billion. Reply