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James
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:
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I've narrowed my investment interests to few sector/group. Now I have
handfull of ETF that I need to select from... my question is, Among
these handfull of ETF, what is the key indicator that would make one
ETF better? Can somebody give me a brief education on this? a link to
some articles would be helpfull.
Thank you
James
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James
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:
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Kadaitcha Man
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:
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Elle the incipient, chopfallen miscreant,
and lady-in-waiting, ranted:
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A Google search of Elle, came back with your picture.
You make my dick so hard,
a cat couldn't scratch it.
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:
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James wrote:
| Quote: | I've narrowed my investment interests to few sector/group. Now I have
handfull of ETF that I need to select from... my question is, Among
these handfull of ETF, what is the key indicator that would make one
ETF better? Can somebody give me a brief education on this? a link to
some articles would be helpfull.
Thank you
James
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I am using http://www.etfconnect.com/ to research ETFs as well as
Yahoo's finance sites. I would look at fees, holdings and long-term
performance and diversification. Probably would not be best to put all
your money in interest rate sensitive stock funds right now I would
gather, but that is my layman knowledge. Name the ETFs and we can
review them. Meanwhile, I am looking at some fixed income ETFs myself,
especially one that is trading at a 10% discount to NAV. Of course that
is the rub of an ETF. The underlying stocks' prices in an ETF may not
be represented in the actual share price of the ETF. I guess that is
something else to look at, the share price of an ETF versus the NAV of
its stock holdings. |
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Elle
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:
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A google search using the terms {ETF "what is"} turns up quite a few
acceptable introductory articles. Toss the phrase "mutual fund" into the
search as well, and you'll get some nice, concise comparison sites. Just for
a start. :-)
"James" <jukim2480@gmail.com> wrote
| Quote: | I've narrowed my investment interests to few sector/group. Now I have
handfull of ETF that I need to select from... my question is, Among
these handfull of ETF, what is the key indicator that would make one
ETF better? Can somebody give me a brief education on this? a link to
some articles would be helpfull.
Thank you
James
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Ed
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rono
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Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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James,
As mentioned in response to your other postie, when I have two
relatively similar choices, I chart them using BigCharts.com and look
at them over various time periods - say 3 months, 6 months, 1 year,
etc.
Which one has the prettiest picture?
best,
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James
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:01 am Post subject:
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Rono,
I think EWJ is a better choice than ITF
James |
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rono
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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Hi James,
Actually, I think JEQ is the best choice among the ETF's and Price
Japan PRJPX is one of the better choices among noload funds.
However, for the normal investor, you might be better off with a
pan-asian fund that holds a lot of Japan. My favorite in this space is
Matthews Asian Pacific MPACX which holds 40% japan. It also has
hongkong/china, korea, etc.
best,
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Ed
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
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"rono" <overtonr@cablespeed.com> wrote
| Quote: | Hi James,
Actually, I think JEQ is the best choice among the ETF's and Price
Japan PRJPX is one of the better choices among noload funds.
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I know I'm being picky here but the distinction is important. JEQ is a CEF
and not a ETF.
Exchange traded funds (ETF's) are all index funds and have relatively low
expenses. CEF's are not index funds and can have very high expenses.
| Quote: | However, for the normal investor, you might be better off with a
pan-asian fund that holds a lot of Japan. My favorite in this space is
Matthews Asian Pacific MPACX which holds 40% japan. It also has
hongkong/china, korea, etc.
best,
rono
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Ed
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:
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HOLDRS are not ETF's, that is accurate.
http://www.holdrs.com/holdrs/main/index.asp
I guess my effort was to inform the investor, James, that the differences
between CEF's and ETF's are large. |
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Mark Freeland
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:
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"Ed" <friday@fishinthe.net> wrote in message
news:11n485q2vdti3ba@corp.supernews.com...
| Quote: | I know I'm being picky here but the distinction is important. JEQ is a CEF
and not a ETF.
Exchange traded funds (ETF's) are all index funds and have relatively low
expenses. CEF's are not index funds and can have very high expenses.
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If you are going to be picky ...
In your last post in this thread, you listed HOLDRs as ETFs.
news:11n0ron2ck3ni8e@corp.supernews.com
HOLDRs are not index funds. So you have a choice - either HOLDRs are not
ETFs, or not all ETFs are index funds.
(The correct choice is that HOLDRs are not even mutual funds, let alone
ETFs, as explained in this BusinessWeek article:
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/aug2005/pi20050822_3655_pi050.htm )
There's also the matter that there are non-index ETFs, just not in the U.S.,
yet. See, e.g.
http://www.ifa.com/archives/articles/spence_john_20020110_sec_reviewing_actively_managed_etfs.asp
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Mark Freeland
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James
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:51 am Post subject:
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| Thank you Ed, Mark and Rono on your opinions. |
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