4 ETFs To Consider And One To Avoid

Michael Johnston submits:When rattling off the advantages that ETFs hold compared to traditional actively-managed mutual funds, most investors usually start with the issue of expenses. The easiest comparison to make involves expense ratios, the fees charged by ETF and mutual fund companies for investing in a product. Though some mutual funds offer single-digit expense ratios, most actively managed products charge in excess of 1% (the average for the mutual fund industry is in the neighborhood of 1.4%).

By AllAboutAlpha.com:SEI, in collaboration with the financial advice website ETF Trends, has posted a new paper on actively-managed exchange traded funds. The paper contends that "the rise of active management in the ETF space may well be the next step in its evolution." The Basics

By Osman Gulseven:iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Plus Capped Index Fund (REM) is one of the most interesting Exchange Traded Funds sponsored by the iShares company. This investment vehicle aims for tracking the general price and yield performance of the FTSE NAREIT All Mortgage Capped Index. In order to achieve this aim, the fund managers invest in mortgage-backed real estate investment trusts, also known as, mREITs.

Over the next few weeks investors will be focused on how best to make their retirement savings grow. The solution for many will once again revolve around plowing their annual contribution into high-cost, underachieving mutual funds, which have been the go-to investment vehicle for Canadians for years. It’s a tough cycle to break, but one that investors should consider in favour of many other more attractive opportunities if they want to make the most of their investments.

By Michael Johnston:ETFs have gathered more than $1 trillion in assets thanks to a number of structural advantages, including enhanced transparency, significant tax advantages, and intraday liquidity. But make no mistake about it: the ETF boom has been fueled in large part by an increased attention to expenses, and intensifying desire among investors to minimize their fees.

So far Bullfax.com Blog has concentrated on economics and market dynamics. We will try to boarden this with some more practical analysis -  this week we are pround to present a special feature by Dr. Sam Subramanian - http://www.alphaprofit.com/alphaprofit.html . He offers an indepth analysis of on recent developments in what's become a favourite of retail investors - ETFs (or exchange-traded fund).

Competition in the online trading space is intensifying. As reported in Discount Online Stock Trading: Charles Schwab Calls the Shots, Charles Schwab (SCHW) recently launched eight in-house exchange-traded funds offering commission free trading on these products to its customers. The Schwab ETF lineup includes U.S.

Michael Johnston submits:Emerging markets ETFs represent the crossroads of two of the hottest investment trends of recent years. As the U.S., Japan, and developed European economies struggled to pull out of recessions and avoid a double dip, the world’s emerging economies raced ahead, led by the BRIC bloc of nations.