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Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF
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Create Your Own Highly Defensive ETF The table at my website link below contains 35 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Highly Defensive PerformIdex which are based in the U.S., Canada, and Europe with market caps over $10B that are the leaders by market cap in their defensive industry groups. The index includes 23 consumer staples and healthcare companies, with the remaining 12 companies chosen from a variety of other defensive industry groups. <> (A) Mass Merchant Dis...
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Beyond Active ETFs: Build Your Own
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<> Index Universe reported last week that Grail Partners has requested SEC approval to launch two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) which are actively managed and do not track an underlying index. The Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF and the Grail American Beacon International Equity ETF would not have any restrictions on trading, but Grail expects to provide more details on target turnover rates for the funds once the managers and investment strategy is in place.
As an alternative investing strategy, why not create your ow...
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ETF Innovators: 24 New Product Ideas
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(closed on 01/18/09)
ETF Innovators: 24 New Product Ideas Below are 24 new exchange-traded product (ETP) ideas, which are organized by the following sectors and themes: transports (six), healthcare (11), Non-Healthcare (five), and commodities (two). The 20 stock-based ETF ideas below are structured as semi-active indexes with monthly rebalancing to choose the top rated stocks as active components on an equal-weight basis. <> Most of the ideas represent first-to-market ideas and several such as Air and...
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15 favorite ETFs for 2009
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Filed under: Major movement, International markets, Newsletters, Mutual funds, ETF Investing, Commodities, Oil, S and P 500, DJIA, Stocks to Buy, Recession, Best Stocks for 2009 For 26 years, at the start of each year, I've conducted an annual survey of newsletter advisors, asking for their favorite investment for the coming year. Until 2 or 3 years ago, their responses were almost always individual stocks and an occasional mutual fund. <>Increasingly in recent years, many advisors have found their favorite positions to be exchange traded funds, whereby they can invest in a sector, region, or s...
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New ETF Ideas for Investors
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<> The accompanying tables present an overview of new global equity indexes and ETF proposals developed to provide investors with long or short investment vehicles for industry groups that currently have few or no ETFs on the market. The goal of these ideas is to provide investors with global equity index investment products which are more focused than broad-based ETFs such as iShares Dow Transports (IYT), Healthcare Sector SPDR (XLV), and Consumer Staples Sector SPDR (XLP).
However, the goal is to choose industry groups which are...
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Seven New ETF Opportunities
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<> Global Auto Industry Index & Top 5 Companies by Market Cap  Global Airline Index & Top 5 Companies by Market Cap <> 
Global Health Info Tech Index & Top 5 Companies by Market Cap <> 
Global Generic Drug Index & Top 5 Companies by Market Cap <> 
NordiCaps Region Index & Top 10 Rated Companies <>  Global Railroad Index & Top 5 Companies by Market Cap
<>  Global Tobacco Index & Top 5 Companies by Market Cap
<> The accompanying tables present an overview of new...
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If there was any doubt whether the rally at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 was anything but a bear market rally, this week put these doubts to rest. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is already down 8.3% year-to-date; it sank 6.2% this week alone (notwithstanding Friday).
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