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Grex Finance Item 29: Exchange Traded Funds
Entered by eprom on Fri Feb 20 17:29:45 UTC 2004:

This is the Exchange Traded Funds item.

With all the bad publicity mutual funds have gotten over this past 
year, it seems like ETFs have become more popular.

I've heard that most mutual funds can't beat the S&P 500 over the
long run....I don't know if thats a myth or not.

Probably one of the more interesting ETF's is a proposed gold fund 
(GLD) that will be based on the price of 1/10th an ounce of gold.

anyways, are there any ETF's that you like?

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by marcvh on Thu Feb 26 23:20:38 2004:

My impression is that the type of mutual funds that have received bad
publicity and the type of mutual funds that are similar to ETFs are
fairly different.

For the typical long-term investor, I don't really see the advantage of
ETFs, which seem more geared to traders.

#2 of 4 by marcvh on Tue Mar 2 19:42:02 2004:

A curious analysis of them may be useful as a data point:
  http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/104/stupid.htm

Briefly, it says they suck.

#3 of 4 by eprom on Sun Jun 13 15:01:29 2004:

for the month of June, Ameritrade is offering commission free trades for ETFs

#4 of 4 by pknight on Thu Jul 22 13:14:38 2004:

Do you guy interest in investing in Thailand?

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