Posts belonging to Category Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 30, 2012
Given the array of exotic alternative investments being sold to the public, it’s logical that many investors often don’t understand what they are buying. What is even scarier is that it is likely their professional investment adviser doesn’t understand the alternative investment either. Investment advisers ? 75 percent of them ? admit they do not […]
Categories: Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Closed End Funds, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Early Retirement Scams, Elder Abuses, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Fairness/Just & Equitable Conduct, Hedge Funds, High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investment Malpractice, Investor Alerts, Life Policies/Viatical Settlements, Limited Partnerships, Misrepresentation/Omission, Mortgage Backed Securities, Nontraded REITs, Oil & Gas, Preferred Stocks, Private Investments/Reg D, REITs, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes, Tenant-in-Common Interests, Unsuitable Recommendations, Variable Annuities and Equity-Indexed Annuities
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 25, 2012
While exchange traded funds continue to flood the market, a record number of existing ETFs are failing or in trouble. Last year, 308 new exchange traded funds were launched, but almost 90 percent of them were unable to attract the $30 million regarded as a minimum threshold amount for profitability, according to CNNMoney (See “Is […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Market Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonJanuary 18, 2012
Junk bond exchange traded funds have ten times more money than they did two years ago, and are causing some of the largest price swings ever. Junk bond price swings were seven times higher in November than in May. This volatility in the junk bond market is similar to the volatility seen in other asset […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Market Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonDecember 30, 2011
Is owning index funds a good idea? It depends on the index, according to personal finance expert John Waggoner (“Funds following odd index? Just say no”). Broad based index funds are a good idea, but new exotic niche funds are not.
Categories: Alternative Funds, Brokerage Firms, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Market Developments, Mutual Funds, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonDecember 20, 2011
It’s getting crazy out there in ETF land. Leveraged exchange traded funds like Direxion Funds that deliver two times the return of a benchmark are being jacked up to three times the return. Many market observers believe that the highly leveraged exchange traded funds are contributing to the market volatility that is causing investors to […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonDecember 8, 2011
Thinly sliced niche exchange traded funds provide exposure to arcane parts of the market, but they may not be what investors had in mind when they purchased them. (“Thinner and Thinner: ETF Providers Cut Market Into Ever-Narrower Slices,” Wall Street Journal).
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 18, 2011
Laurence D. Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., blasted sellers of synthetic (derivatives-based) exchange traded funds as damaging to the industry, according to InvestmentNews (“BlackRock’s general, Societe Generale in ETF ‘street brawl’”). BlackRock is the world’s largest ETF provider and one of the world’s largest money managers.
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 14, 2011
When world markets move significantly in apparent response to major macroeconomic news, even supposedly “uncorrelated assets” move in unison with them, according to Jason Zweig’s Wall Street Journal article, “Caging Raging Contagion.” Such a significant move occurred last week when the Italian government and bonds collapsed over its fiscal problems, and everything else fell, too.
Categories: Alternative Funds, Alternative Investments, Asset Backed Securities, Bonds, Brokerage Firms, CDOs, Closed End Funds, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Hedge Funds, High Yield (Junk) Bonds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Mortgage Backed Securities, Mortgage Securities & Collateralized Debt Obligation Problems, Mutual Funds, Nontraded REITs, Preferred Stocks, Private Investments/Reg D, REITs, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Stocks, Structured Notes
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 10, 2011
Investors in Europe withdrew $1.9 billion from synthetic (i.e., derivative-based) exchange-traded funds last month, according to Bloomberg (“Synthetic ETFs Lose $1.9B in Europe”). On the other hand, physically backed funds had inflows $3.11 billion.
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Derivatives, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Regulatory Developments, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools
Posted by Page PerryonNovember 7, 2011
As recently reported by InvestmentNews, The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (“NASAA”) jointly issued an investor alert warning about risks associated with self-directed IRAs. These IRAs differ from traditional IRAs in that they allow owners to invest their retirement savings in a number of unusual and sometimes […]
Categories: Alternative Investments, Brokerage Firms, Common Securities Broker Abuses, Early Retirement Scams, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), Hedge Funds, Investigations, Investment Advisers, Investor Alerts, Life Policies/Viatical Settlements, Nontraded REITs, Private Investments/Reg D, Regulatory Developments, Reverse Convertibles, Securities, Securities/Commodities Arbitration, Securities/Commodities Litigation, Smart Investing Tools, Structured Notes
