3 ETFs To Fight Against Global Currency War
Zacks Funds - Seeking Alpha - Mon Feb 09, 5:36PM CST
The world is heading towards a currency war as a number of countries are choosing loose monetary policies to stimulate the sagging growth and prevent deflationary pressures. This is in stark contrast to the U.S. Fed policy of tightening its stimulus...
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3 ETFs to Fight Against Global Currency War - ETF News And Commentary
Sweta Killa - Zacks Investment Research - Fri Feb 06, 10:00AM CST
Investors seeking to play in the international market should forget currency risk with the currency hedged ETFs.
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Realized Risk And Returns In Developed Markets
Baijnath Ramraika, CFA - Seeking Alpha - Thu Feb 05, 3:04PM CST
By Baijnath Ramraika, CFA In a paper I co-authored with Prashant Trivedi, we constructed all stock market-cap weighted indices for each one of the twenty-three developed markets included in the MSCI Developed Markets Index as of December 31st,...
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Europe's QE Experiment: Adding Stock ETF Exposure And Hedging Against The Unforeseen
Gary Gordon - Seeking Alpha - Fri Jan 23, 12:46PM CST
The scope (current euro-zone member nations) and size ($1.1 trillion euros) of the European Central Bank's latest stimulus effort has delighted the worldwide investing community. In fact, many began betting on a monumental quantitative easing...
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ETF Deathwatch For January 2015: The Year Begins At 322
Ron Rowland - Seeking Alpha - Tue Jan 20, 3:37PM CST
ETF Deathwatch begins 2015 with 322 products on the list, consisting of 222 ETFs and 100 ETNs. Fourteen names joined the lineup this month and nineteen exited. Just nine came off due to improved health, while the other ten met their death and no...
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Hedged ETFs Provide Foreign Exposure Sans Currency Risk
Brian Haskin - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Jan 13, 6:02PM CST
By DailyAlts Staff A new whitepaper from Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM) considers the benefits of using currency-hedged ETFs (exchange-traded funds) to gain foreign equity exposure. Written by Deutsche AWM ETF strategists...
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No Market Is An Island
Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson - Seeking Alpha - Fri Oct 24, 4:21PM CDT
As the final quarter of the year begins, I sense that we've entered a new regime - one defined by the interplay among central bank policies in the U.S., Europe, and Japan and their impact across asset classes. The U.S. is nearing its first rate hike...
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