The idea behind the title is that sometimes we don’t have to invest directly in order to invest in some specific sector/investment. It is kinda like investing indirectly in the sector you want. In this post lets review a few such strategies. 1.Commodity Instead of investing directly in commodity stocks like oil,mining, etc. it may …
For many years now there were no ETFs or mutual funds that concentrated only on international utility stocks. State Street seems to have figured out this problem. Recently they have launched the first foreign utilities ETF.This ETF is great for investors looking to invest in foreign utilities but cannot afford to pick many stocks. Here …
During these turbulent market times,it is a great idea to stay with large caps – especially Blue Chips.Many of the blue chips are at attractive levels now. Large caps tend to weather the storm better than small and mid caps. Thats why you will see that small and mid caps are doing worse than large …
Northern Trust has launched 3 more country index ETFs. These are: 1.Country – Italy S&P/MIB Index Fund – ITL 2.Country – South Africa NETS FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index Fund – JNB 3.Country – Singapore NETS FTSE Singapore Straits Times Index Fund – SGT Of these SGT and ITL will have great dividend yields. We will …
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For many years, ishares’s single country ETFs have dominated the ETF market for investing in one specific country. These ETFs tracked the main market index of the corresponding countries. They have been a huge success with funds such as EWG and EWA collecting assets of over $1.0B since launch. Due to the success of the …