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The Best Small-Cap ETFs These exchange-traded funds win the best-in-class award. Let's take a closer look at the iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF, the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, the iShares Morningstar Small Core ETF, the iShares S&P 600 Value ETF, and the Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF. |
The Motley Fool
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Simple Ways to Win With Small Caps Put together a great set of investments in just a few steps by using exchange traded funds. |
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Find Small-Cap Winners the Simple Way Picking a good small-cap ETF makes it easy to broaden your portfolio and improve its long-term returns. Which of these four ETFs has the secret to top returns? |
The Motley Fool
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It's Time to Sell Your Small-Cap Stocks Large-cap valuations are unusually attractive. |
Financial Advisor
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It's All In The Weighting ETF indexing has evolved, but the traditional, somewhat boring approach may still yield the best results. |
The Motley Fool
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This ETF Sector Is Getting Pricey While large-cap stocks dominated in the late 1990s, small-cap stocks have had a truly amazing run in the decade since then. |
The Motley Fool
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4-Star ETFs Poised to Pop: Vanguard Small-Cap Market-trouncing returns could be written in this four-star. |
Financial Planning
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The Smaller, the Better Rumors that the small-cap effect is dead are most definitely premature. By focusing on the smallest of the small caps, financial advisors can see that the small-cap effect appears to be alive and well. You just need to know where to look for it. |
Financial Advisor
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The New Indexing Maze The mushrooming ETF market has spawned a new breed of indexes that represent a radical departure from traditional benchmarks in both their construction and purpose. |
Registered Rep.
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The Smart Way to Use Index Funds Now In the cold light of the bear market, advisors have discovered inherent flaws in the indices and the funds that track them. |
Financial Planning
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Seven-Year Hitch? Small-cap stocks have been big winners ever since the last century, but keeping the good times rolling could be a major challenge for financial planners. |
Financial Advisor
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Marla Brill |
New Indexes Nudge Out Old Favorites Advisors who have moved into alternative indexes are finding unique ways to use them. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2005
Craig L. Israelsen |
Three's Not a Crowd How passive fund investors can get the best exposure to the whole U.S. market. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2006
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Competing With the S&P 500 If you want to increase your chance of beating the S&P 500 year after year, one good way is to broaden your investment choices to include a generous mix of smaller caps and international equities. Mutual funds and ETFs offer an easy means to get that degree of breadth. |
The Motley Fool
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Index Funds Win Again Index funds are cheap, easy, and they reliably outperform many other funds. |
The Motley Fool
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The ETF Wars Are Getting Silly Having more choices isn't always better for investors. |
The Motley Fool
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Financial Planning
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Donald Jay Korn |
Weight Watchers New equity indexes, weighed by fundamental factors, are challenging the conventions of passive investing. |
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Beyond Benchmarks Tracking alternative indexes can add a flavor of active management to the ETF menu. |
The Motley Fool
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The Best ETF for 2007: Vanguard Small-Cap Value If 70 years of results are good enough for you, this ETF is worth checking out. |
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A Glimpse Into Goldman Sachs' ETF Holdings Will Goldman's ETF holdings surprise you? |
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$40 Billion Small Caps How your "small-cap" fund might own some of the biggest companies in the market. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Why Mega-Cap Stocks Are Not Enough Before you jump into the biggest, most popular index funds that are based on the S&P 500 index, think twice. |
Financial Advisor
October 2008
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Ready For Harvest Rounding up investment laggards to harvest tax losses is a good idea toward the end of any year in taxable accounts, but this year there is added incentive. |
The Motley Fool
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6 Stocks to Sell Before Everyone Else Does It's time for the annual changes to the Russell indexes. |
On Wall Street
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Benchmarking the Benchmarks The news hasn't been good lately for actively managed funds and their investors. In 2011, only one-third of large-cap fund managers beat the S&P 500 index. |
Investment Advisor
November 2006
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Fundamental Indexing Goes Main Street Index investing has traditionally been linked to capital-weighted indexes, whereby a company's market cap determines how much of a company actually got into an index. And that's the fatal flaw in conventional index-linked investing. |
The Motley Fool
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This Could Be an ETF Game Changer Longtime index company Russell Investments comes out with new ETFs. |
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These Investments Could Steer You Wrong Index funds and exchange-traded funds aren't perfect. |
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Schwab's Low-Cost ETF Gamble Schwab is undercutting competitors with low fees, but still faces a challenge in differentiating its ETFs from those offered by more established players. |
The Motley Fool
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Market-Beating Returns Made Simple This twist on the old index fund does well. Equal-weight funds have done quite well compared to traditional index funds over periods of several years. |
The Motley Fool
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A New Way to Battle the Economy Should you defend your portfolio with the new Sabrient Defensive Equity Index ETF? |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2006
Elizabeth O'Brien |
S&P Muscles in on Wilshire More and more index makers are offering the same products -- but they insist there's a difference. Planners should take the time to explain the differences to their individual clients in order to "manage expectations." |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
Are ETFs Cutting Corners? This practice makes sense for funds, but could mean pain for you. It seems that most ETFs don't completely mimic their underlying indexes |
Financial Advisor
September 2011
Brad Zigler |
Running The Numbers ETFs are supposed to be cheap, but can they outperform the market, too? |
Financial Advisor
December 2005
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Taxing Questions Are ETFs really more tax efficient than mutual funds? Financial advisors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
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ETF Portfolio Perfection Do you need ETFs to make your portfolio perfect? |
Financial Advisor
February 2006
Matt Hougan |
Is `Buy The Market' Best? Enhanced indexers say they have the way to go the market one (or two) better. Financial advisors, take note. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
ETF Mania! As the number of exchange-traded funds explodes, planners are deploying them to bring sophisticated institutional strategies to affluent clients. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2006
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Evening the Odds A significant flaw in many active-versus-passive studies occurs when tallying the number of funds that under- or out-perform an index. Three steps could help level the playing field in the active-versus-passive debate. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
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ETFs: What The Buzz Is About In the wake of the mutual fund scandal, more exchange-traded funds are finding their way into individual investors' portfolios |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Going Beyond the Index Rather than using a weighted index based on the market cap of the component stocks, WisdomTree ETFs base their portfolio allocations for index components on fundamental aspects of those stocks, such as dividend yield and company earnings. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2009
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The Best Method for Simple Investing Depending on how you invest, making the right choice between ETFs and index mutual funds will give you exactly the portfolio you want. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
When ETFs Are Better Than Funds The bottom line is that sometimes, an index fund will serve you just fine. And other times, ETFs may be best. It also depends on the index fund you're looking at, and the ETF. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen |
Multiply Returns by Dividing Gaining exposure to U.S. stocks by using three equally weighted index funds produced better performance than a single mega-market index fund during the Lost Decade of 2001 to 2010. |
Financial Advisor
October 2008
Jeff Schlegel |
Small-Cap Surprise This was supposed to be the year of the large-cap stock. A weak U.S. economy in the throes of a wholesale financial quagmire should have spelled trouble for small caps with their mostly domestic focus. Oh well, so much for predictions. |
Registered Rep.
June 25, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Vanguard Broadens ETF Platform The company that made its reputation with low-cost indexed investments said it will launch 19 new index funds and related ETFs over the next year, as well as an ETF that tracks its $91 billion Vanguard 500 Index Fund. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
April Recksiek |
Index Battle Investors who want to build an index-based portfolio have two viable mechanisms: index-based mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
6 ETFs That Won't Rip You Off Don't pay more than you have to for ETFs. |
