Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time
Category: ETFBy Sun on Apr 22, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 3 Comments
Today, April 22nd, is Earth Day and one of the topic being discussed is how to live a green life and save our environment. On this year’s Earth Day, the government also announced a plan to boost fuel efficiency by 25%, increasing per gallon mileage from 27.5 to 35.7, on the same day when the […]
By Sun on Apr 15, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 3 Comments
Less than a month after Bear Stearns became the first firm ever to offer actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF), PowerShares, an major player in the ETF arena, introduced its own active ETFs last Friday. The four new ETFs, including both equity and fixed income funds, are:
PowerShares Active AlphaQ Fund (PQY)
PowerShares Active Alpha Multi-Cap Fund (PQZ)
PowerShares […]
By Sun on Mar 10, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 2 Comments
Jonathan Clements, who writes the Getting Going column on The Wall Street Journal, recently celebrated his 1000th column. In his milestone piece, Mr. Clements reflected his journey of the past 1o years for writing the Getting Going and summarized what he has observed from the developments in the financial industry in the past decade.
According to […]
By Sun on Mar 5, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 8 Comments
Gold isn’t the only hot precious metal in town these days.
Spot silver surpassed the psychological $20 an ounce today to its highest level since October 17, 1980. Currently, silver is traded at $20.80/ounce (Kitco.com). So far this year, silver has gained more than 39%.
Then, there’s platinum which is also on fire since the beginning of […]
By Sun on Feb 25, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 5 Comments
The family of dividend-paying ETFs just got a little larger.
State Street Global Advisors on February 12th launched a new dividend-oriented exchange-traded fund, S&P International Dividend ETF (DWX). The new fund tracks the S&P International Dividend Opportunities Index, which was introduced a month ago on January 25, 2008. According to the fund prospectus, the benchmark consists […]
By Sun on Feb 5, 2008 in ETF, Investing | 9 Comments
Do you think there are just too many ETFs out there?
Apparently, there are. The latest evidence came from Claymore Securities Inc, one of the major issuers of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which in an announcement last week says it will close 11 of its 37 ETFs on February 20th and liquid assets in these funds on […]
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