Tom Lydon 
The number of ETFs on Deathwatch continues to grow as we enter 2009. My current list contains 139 names: 97 ETFs and 42 ETNs. The list includes any ETF/ETN that is at least six months old and had an Average Daily Value Traded of less than $100,000 in December.[in] the Financial Analysts Journal... letters [section] the magazine published in its March/April issue... André Perold, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, had written an article in a previous issue criticizing a new kind of financial product called fundamentally weighted indexes, which have been devised in large part by a man named Robert D. Arnott. Mr. Arnott is the chairman of Research Affiliates, a six-year-old company that markets and licenses such funds ? and he?s also the former editor of The Financial Analysts Journal. ?André...
Uncovering Hidden Commodities Exposure
(Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:54:27 -0500)Hard Assets Investor submits:
Commodity exposure can be added to every asset class, in a manner of speaking. Obviously any of the broad-based funds like DBC or DJP or any of the narrow funds like USO or SLV provide direct access. Certain stocks like oil companies or mining stocks allow entry with varying degrees of leverage to whatever commodity they deal in (these are not always the best proxies).
Additionally, there are countries like Brazil, Australia, Chile, Canada and Norway that are leveraged to various commodities that they produce, and so stock, bond and currency exposure to these countries can also be a commodity play. For example,...
A Guide to U.S. Large Cap Broad Index ETFs and ETNs
(Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:42:34 -0400)US Large Cap Broad Index ETFs List
(click on symbol for data and articles)"Mega" Cap Traditional Index ETFs
Diamonds Trust, Series 1 (DIA)
iShares S&P 100 Index Fund (OEF)
Rydex Russell Top 50 ETF (XLG)
PowerShares Active Mega Cap (PMA)
Complete Story »New WisdomTree 'Earnings' ETFs Are Sans Dividends - What Gives?
(Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:01:44 -0500)IndexUniverse submits: Think WisdomTree and you think dividends. After all, WisdomTree is the company that called dividend-weighting ?a better way to index,? and said its dividend-weighting methodology would ?change the way we think about indexing and index investing.?
You can imagine the surprise late last month, then, when that same WisdomTree rolled out a suite of six exchange-traded funds that weighted stocks, not by dividends, but by earnings. Was WisdomTree turning its back on the dividend system?
The initial reaction of many market observers was actually to cast the funds as the forgotten step-child of the dividend strategy; WisdomTree?s ?second-best? product...
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