Exchange Traded Funds are still rapidly growing and the amount of capital under management by the three main ETF providers (who make up 85% of the market) is simply astonishing. For example the biggest ETF provider, iShares, has approximately $370 billion under management in their funds! They have 218 different ETF products and still growing! […]
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Smartphone ETF
February 18, 2011 
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Shipments of smartphones in 2010 were up 74% globally on 2009 to 302million handsets. Many people already recognise that smartphone adoption will become widespread, resulting in many companies involved posting record profits or sales or both! A very enterprising company called First Trust Advisors have created a Smartphone ETF (exchange traded fund) to enable the […]
Continue readingAn Egypt ETF
February 6, 2011 1 Comment
So here’s an idea for the brave and those who buy into Warren Buffett’s saying ‘be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy’. The prospect of regime change in Egypt has created a lot of uncertainty in the region and the Market Vectors Egypt Index ETF (EGPT) is down ~20% from […]
Continue readingWhat is an ETF?
February 18, 2010 3 Comments
ETF stands for ‘exchange traded fund’, which is an investment fund listed like a stock on the main international exchanges around the world. ETFs are typically created to allow investors to trade securities which are either difficult or expensive for retail investors to do themselves. ETFs may contain shares, bonds, commodities or a combination of […]
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Alistair Milne 