Morningstar submits:
By Michael Rawson, CFA
Because of their low costs, exchange-traded funds are increasingly seen as the optimal vehicle to obtain passive market exposure. But when it comes to obtaining that exposure, investors face myriad choices. For example, there are ETFs that follow competing indexes from providers, such as Standard & Poor’s, Russell, Dow Jones, and MSCI.
By Morningstar:
By Patricia Oey
While we usually recommend using single-country funds as satellite holdings given their niche exposure, we think iShares MSCI United Kingdom Index (EWU) is suitable as a core foreign-equity [...]
By Caiman Valores:
Since my last Ecopetrol (EC) update there have been news stories publicizing an extraordinary event; Colombia’s Ecopetrol surpassed Brazil’s Petrobras (PBR) by market cap on Tuesday 15th May 2012, to become the largest [...]
By Morningstar:
By David Whiston, CFA, CPA, CFE
We believe current U.S. light-vehicle sales are far below where they should be, and assuming no further supply constraints, we are very optimistic [...]
By Bard Luippold:
“If I were one of these crazy hedge fund guys, with the slick haircuts and fancy shoes and racing stripe shirts, the trade I’d put on is 10-times-leveraged natural gas long versus 10-times [...]