VOD for investors
Thomson Reuters unveiled its Reuters Insider product today. Geared towards clients of investment terminals, Insider is essentially an aggregator of video content, sucking in both Reuters proprietary content and that from outside partners. It’s going to be like a professional version of Seeking Alpha — but with video, not text.
Trader You Tube? [...]
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Interesting analysis on The Atlantic today regarding the WSJ’s paid content experiment on the iPad.
Let’s remember (from the article):
Apple sold about 500,000 iPad units in its first week
3200 WSJ iPad apps sold so far at $17.29/mo (or bundled together with other editions)
30,000 current WSJ subs trialing a free version of the app — so room for [...]
February 15, 2010 – 6:15 am
We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap.
As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced:
new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.)
made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies)
provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual Funds that price [...]
By Zack Miller
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February 7, 2010 – 8:33 am
Just doing some thinking about the growth and future of the ETF industry:
In my eyes, ETFs began as a second-generation of mutual funds with the following characteristics:
Passively managed: ETFs were passively managed (though that’s changing), building upon Jack Bogle’s success at Vanguard. Most research at the time clung to the Efficient Market Hypothesis and academics [...]
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September 11, 2009 – 12:22 am
Summary
Regulators have their sights set on restructuring the market for leveraged, inverse(short) and commodity ETFs. Increased scrutiny for these index shorts and leveraged bets have the ETF industry running for cover and it’s already impacting existing shares in common ETFs tracking commodities and sectors, like Oil and Financials. Advisers commonly use these products for hedging [...]
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September 2, 2009 – 6:02 am
Dow Jones is reporting that investors in exchange traded funds (ETFs) that use leverage to achieve 2x and 3x of certain indices and inverse ETFs, funds that attempt to perform -1x certain index, are going to face higher margin requirements in the months to come.
In an article published yesterday, Ian Salisbury of Dow Jones [...]
On the back of an announcement that PIMCO is launching a pure assets ETF, Mebane Faber’s got an interesting run-down of the structure and performance of several lazy portfolios. The thought process here is that theoretically, one could create a truly diversified portfolio with just 3 ETFs: stocks, bonds and now, assets.
This is Faber’s own [...]
Is the elusive “Bloomberg for the masses” attainable? Of course, most do-it-yourself investors cannot afford the cost of thousands of dollars per month for these expensive terminals. But, what about making a platform free for subscribers and monetizing the platform via advertising? That’s exactly what SkyGrid is attempting. Until recently, SkyGrid charged $6000 per seat/year [...]
