ETFs are one of the fastest growing asset classes in the US and Europe. Investors fed up with high expenses charged by mutual funds are migrating to ETFs due to their cost advantage. To meet this huge demand ETF providers are launching ETFs on a daily basis.For an average investor keeping tabs on these multitude …
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Some of the ETFs for individual countries have high allocations to financial stocks. While this has been good for performance until 2006, it has become a drag on many of these ETFs as financials have been crushed during this bear market. Many bank stocks such as ING, LYG are well off their 52 week highs. …
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 …