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| Are Target Date Retirement Funds a Panacea? |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – Mutual funds with a projected retirement date attached have been sold as a panacea to people saving and investing for retirement. But are they? - 01-18-2011 |
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| Are Precious Metals a Safe Haven during Crisis? |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – Even though precious metals have been lagging performers so far this year, both gold (NYSEArca: GLD) and silver... - 01-11-2011 |
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| Why Investors should avoid New Year’s Resolutions |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – Full Disclosure: I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions. For one thing, I know they don’t work because by the second week of January most people have either broken their resolutions or long-forgotten... - 01-06-2011 |
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| Making the Most of Commission Free ETF Trades |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – The ongoing price war among brokerage and investment firms for ETF assets is a positive development for individual investors everywhere. It’s ushered in a new era of lower investment costs for both active traders along with... - 12-23-2010 |
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| Lessons Learned from Europe's Financial Crisis |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – For Europe, 2010 will end the same way it started; in financial crisis. Despite the illustrious birth of a massive bailout fund... - 12-21-2010 |
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| Are Municipal Bonds a Ticking Time Bomb? |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – If there’s one great thing you could say about low interest rates it’s that they’ve given a lot of over indebted states time to... - 12-13-2010 |
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| 3 Traits in a Mutual Fund to Avoid |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – There’s around $10.5 trillion invested in mutual funds, according to the Investment Company Institute and tragically, many investors own funds with undesirable characteristics. What are they? - 12-08-2010 |
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| Is a Euro Breakup Coming? |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – Lately, Europe can’t get any breaks. As the region’s sovereign debt crisis continues to unfold, a monster volcano in Iceland - 12-02-2010 |
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| Are U.S. Treasuries Really a Safe Haven? |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – How many times have we heard or read a major media establishment report that U.S. Treasuries went up because of "safe haven" buying? Stories with this sort of angle have been on the rise lately. But are... - 11-30-2010 |
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| Kauffman ETF Report: Many Allegations, Many Holes |
| SAN DIEGO (ETFguide.com) – A scathing 88-page report authored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation warns that ETFs have introduced a bevy of new risks that could cause the financial system to tip and sink like RMS Titanic. - 11-24-2010 |
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