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3 ETF Ideas for the Final Quarter of 2009

DEM no longer distributes income annually in December - it is now distributed quarterly.

Why Investors Should Avoid TIP

Does anyone have a resource to identify the exact inflation measure used by the more significant holdings in WIP? Do any of them use US Govt CPI? Their own government's measure of inflation in their own single country? Some kind of govt or private measure of regional (Eurozone, for example) or global inflation?

Positioning For Further Dollar Weakness

Re WIP,

Does anyone know what inflation indexes the underlying issues use for their TIP features? Are they all linked to inflation rates in the issuing country? Some other index? Thanks.

Playing The Commodity Craze

Thanks for the very informative article. Two topics I'd love to see addressed in a sequel:

How do each of the indexes differ in how they deal with rolling contracts forward? I'd like to see an explanation of this part of the issue that is as in-depth as your explanation of their differences in composition.

Also, how do ETN issuers invest the proceeds of selling notes? Do they invest directly in commodities? Do they buy futures contracts? Or do they simply take the money in to their banking or other business and hope to make enough profit to pay off the notes and have money left over?