Archive for July, 2007
Exchange Traded Notes
Just as ETFs were becoming common place, one of the leading providers of ETFs, Barclay’s Bank, decided to throw a wrinkle into the whole thing. Barclay’s is the provider of iShares ETFs and recently launched a new class of exchange traded securities called the Exchange Traded Note (ETN). The use of ETFs and ETNs are [...]
read more »Closed-End Funds
Another exchange traded option is investments in closed-end mutual funds. While often run by well-known operators of traditional, open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds are very different from their open-end counterparts. A closed-end fund is an investment company which generates all of its initial capital from the sale of shares. Officially, these “funds” are actually classified [...]
read more »Exchange Traded Funds, Where to Look
So, are you interested in ETFs after the last post? Well, you’re in luck. Just about every major fund manager is as well and as a result there are tons of ETFs out there now. You can use them to invest in commodities, bonds, emerging markets, industries, or sectors. While you can short them yourself, [...]
read more »Exchange Traded Funds, Simply
Now that I think about it, if you define exchange traded fund literally then the term should be an all encompassing reference to any sort of fund that has shares issued on an exchange. But, in our case, we’ll use the term to describe ETFs like those offered as iShares, Powershares, and Proshares as well [...]
read more »Exchange Traded Something-or-Others
I realized that, in my last few posts on emerging markets, my suggestions for how to play opportunities in these markets often revolved around Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) or, in the particular case of India, an exchange traded Closed-Ended Mutual Fund. These may be confusing terms to people who have not invested before and I [...]
read more »Emerging Markets: Taiwan
Taiwan, a beautiful little island just south of Japan. Maybe you haven’t heard of it. Rightfully so. Only a dozen or so countries in the world even recognize Taiwan as a nation. And, you definitely haven’t heard of any of those countries. I can’t even name them.
If you’re reading this website, though, you’re probably using [...]
