Leonard Goldner

Palladium as an Investment: Worth Considering?

There is also an ETF which trades in London(1 share =1/10 oz). The yahoo symbol is PHPD.L and the US pink sheet is ETMSF.PK . One of the US etf mamagers(I forget which one) has filed for registering a US version of the London etf.

Oil Equipment ETFs On the Rise

You should have also mentioned PXJ which is similiar to OIH but I believe has outperformed in the past year or so.

Van Eck ETFs Push The Envelope For Thematic Exposure

Thank you for alerting me to these new ETFs. Do you have any idea of the components in either of the DAX indexes that they intend to track and their relative weight of each constituent company?

PowerShares Int'l Dividend Achievers: A Conservative Way to Invest Abroad

You should look at the 3 wisdom tree intl ETF-DLS DOO DTH. They have far outperformed PID and are also based on int'l dividend payers(althoung not necessaraily adrs)

Eye on Alliance Resource Partners

Alliance's GP is also public. I'd look at ahgp. The current yield is lower but the distribution will increase more than alliance's due to the structure of the mlp. If arlp does well ahgp has to do better.

Understanding Single-Country ETFs

You state there are countless of investments superior to EFA but do not indicateeven one. I'd like to know what some of them are.