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  • China’s first exchange-traded fund starts trading

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    BEIJING, Feb. 23 — The mainland’s first exchange-traded fund, or ETF starts trading Wednesday on the Shanghai bourse. The move is aimed at helping to develop the nation’s fledgling stock markets. More than six billion units of Shanghai 50 ETF’s are being listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The index ETF funds are…

  • A Year to Remember for Exchange-Traded Funds

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    The year just ended was a good one for exchange-traded funds. ETF assets grew by 47% to $222 billion, according to current figures in Morningstar’s database. ETF purveyors launched dozens of funds, including groundbreaking gold and China offerings. The industry also buzzed with talk of creating other commodity-linked and even actively managed ETFs. Here’s a…

  • Investor Independence via ETFs — Part 5

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    There are probably twenty good reasons for chucking your mutual funds and replacing them with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Let me give you three: ETFs perform better, manage risk better and cost less. If you are an active trader, let me give you another: you trade them exactly like you do stocks. So overwhelming are…