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AlphaDEX Alternatives to Cap-Weighted ETFs Prove Their Mettle
Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 1:43pm | 637Among the prominent trends in the ETF industry this year has been the realization by advisors, investors and traders that traditional cap-weighted funds are not always the best when it comes to returns. Still, most equity-based ETFs are just that: Weighted by the market values of the funds'...
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Fighting Correlations With Frontier Market ETFs
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 2:40pm | 541Among the scores of new ETFs to debut this year has been an addition to the frontier markets fray, the iShares MSCI Frontier 100 Index Fund (NYSE: FM). That ETF launched about 11 weeks ago and since then has accumulated $14.3 million in assets under management. As the name implies, the iShares...
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Long Airlines, Short Oil Working With ETFs
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 2:03pm | 606A familiar trade is working once again; that being long airline stocks and short oil. The numbers back up that assertion, as over the past month, the Guggenheim Airline ETF (NYSE: FAA), the only ETF devoted to airline stocks, is up half a percent. That may not sound like much, but a pair trade...