Finally, An ETF That Covers Asia's Tech Sector

By Roger Nusbaum: One of the first ETFs for Latin America is the iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund (ILF).

By Roger Nusbaum: One of the benefits of ETFs, even narrow ones, is that they help investors avoid single stock risk. While stock picking does not have to be unsolvable, black box work, many investors, including professionals, would rather not pick stocks.

Ron Rowland submits:The iShares MSCI New Zealand Investable Market Index Fund (ENZL) began trading September 2, 2010. The underlying index is a free-float adjusted market capitalization weighted index designed to capture 99% of the market cap of securities listed for trading in New Zealand.

ETF Database submits: ETFs have become popular among all walks of investors in part because of the granularity of exposure available; U.S. investors are able to access nearly every corner of the world through a single security. Before the advent of country-specific ETFs, many investors spread out their portfolios around the globe through broad-based global funds or stock of large multinational corporations that had their shares listed on American exchanges.

Roger Nusbaum submits: A reader asks:

By Roger Nusbaum: This week's Barron's featured the Mutual Fund Quarterly (I guess the roundtable will be next week?) and there was one interesting article that talked about comp

Roger Nusbaum submits: As a follow up to Friday's post ,deconstructing a Dollar Proof portfolio from Morningstar, I thought it might be interesting to explore the Dollar Proof concept going sector by

ETF Database submits: With equity markets declining in much of the developed world, many investors have put a greater focus on stable commodity-producing economies that seem to have weathered the recent downturn better than most. Countries such as Australia and Canada come to mind as markets that have been able to grow thanks to vast natural resources for which there is huge demand from rising powers such as India and China.