Archive for the 'Exchange Traded Funds' Category


Closed-End Funds

Friday, July 27th, 2007

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 […]

Exchange Traded Funds, Where to Look

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

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, […]

Exchange Traded Funds, Simply

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

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 […]

Exchange Traded Something-or-Others

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

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 […]


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