Understanding Exchange-Traded Funds | Understanding…

Understanding Exchange-Traded Funds

Authors: Archie Richards

Published: March 2007

eISBN: 9780071509534 0071509534 | ISBN: 9780071484916

Contents

Preface

Part One: Building Blocks

1 Stocks

2 Secondary Trading

3 Those Quirky Bonds

4 Mutual Funds

5 Indexes and the Funds That Track Them

Part Two: Exchange-Traded Funds

6 The Basics of Exchange-Traded Funds

7 Comparison of Costs

8 Comparison of Risks

9 Comparison with Actively Managed Mutual Funds

10 Comparison with Index Funds

Part Three: Guidelines And Strategies

11 General Financial Guidelines

12 Mostly Bum Strategies

13 Pretty Good ETF Strategies

14 The Ins and Outs of Brokerage Accounts

15 Fear Not the Purchase of Stocks

16 Approaching a Promising Investment Strategy

17 A Superior Portfolio of Exchange-Traded Funds

Appendix A: Current U.S. Exchange-Traded Funds

Appendix B: Sponsors, Indexers, and Other Information

Glossary

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Bibliography

Index