Jim Z wrote a new post, Asset Class Trends: Treasury, Municipal and Inflation...
Jim Z wrote a new post, Asset Class Trends: Treasury, Municipal and Inflation Protected Bonds Are In Favor Even though U.S. stocks have risen recently, elevated bond prices continue to go up. The...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: S&P Small Cap 600 ETF Outperformed In...
Jim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: S&P Small Cap 600 ETF Outperformed In Small Cap ETFs Small cap stocks continued their recent strength. The following shows their trend rankings among nine...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: U.S. Small Cap Growth Stocks ETF On Top
Jim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: U.S. Small Cap Growth Stocks ETF On Top The current risk asset strength puts most stock ETFs on top of major asset class trend ranking table on 360° Market...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: Dividend And Growth Stocks Better in...
Jim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: Dividend And Growth Stocks Better in Foreign Large Cap Stock ETFs International developed stock markets were severely hurt last year. It began to recover strongly...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: Broadbase Commodities ETFs Are Weakest...
Jim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: Broadbase Commodities ETFs Are Weakest Among Risk Assets Commodities are considered to be an important asset class for asset allocation portfolios: they can be...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, ETF Fund Review: PowerShares Emerging Markets Bonds...
Jim Z wrote a new post, ETF Fund Review: PowerShares Emerging Markets Bonds ETF PCY Excels Emerging market bonds have become a large part of many investors' portfolios in recent years. They are also...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, ETF Review: Vanguard Investment Grade Bond ETF Again...
Jim Z wrote a new post, ETF Review: Vanguard Investment Grade Bond ETF Again The Best Fixed income (bonds) is one of the most important assets for a portfolio: it provides regular income with...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, Equal Weight ETFs: Still Outdoing Market Cap ETFs
Jim Z wrote a new post, Equal Weight ETFs: Still Outdoing Market Cap ETFs The S&P equal weight ETF RSP is still outperforming the market cap weight S&P 500 SPY: Portfolio Performance...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: Vanguard Still Shines In U.S. Long Term...
Jim Z wrote a new post, Fund Review: Vanguard Still Shines In U.S. Long Term Investment Grade Bond ETFs Long term investment grade bonds are on two extremes: credit wise, they are usually AAA or AA...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, PowerShares Fundamental High Yield ETF (PHB)...
Jim Z wrote a new post, PowerShares Fundamental High Yield ETF (PHB) Outperforms Other High Yield Indices High yield bonds are rising amid general risk asset classes' strength. The following table...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, PowerShares S&P 500 BuyWrite Cover Call ETF Review
Jim Z wrote a new post, PowerShares S&P 500 BuyWrite Cover Call ETF Review Covered Call investing can be viewed as a way to dampen volatility by selling short term (usually front month) calls of...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, ETF Review: Vanguard Mid Cap Stock ETF VO Shines Again
Jim Z wrote a new post, ETF Review: Vanguard Mid Cap Stock ETF VO Shines Again Mid cap stock funds form an important stock style among nine stock styles: large|mid|small cap blend|growth|value. Mid...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, Leveraged ETFs: Another Lesson From Volatility ETN TVIX
Jim Z wrote a new post, Leveraged ETFs: Another Lesson From Volatility ETN TVIX Here is what happened yesterday: VIX, the index that represents short term S&P 500 index option implied volatility,...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, ETF Review: Vanguard European ETF Is Best Among...
Jim Z wrote a new post, ETF Review: Vanguard European ETF Is Best Among Europe Stock ETFs Yet another Vanguard ETF excelled: Vanguard European ETF VGK again delivered the best 1,3 and 5 year returns...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, Large Company Stocks Still Dominate
Jim Z wrote a new post, Large Company Stocks Still Dominate Recent correction and the blow out quarter from Apple (AAPL) alike again make large company stocks more resilient than smaller capitalized...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, Who Blows Treasury Bubbles? Not 2% Big Money Managers
Jim Z wrote a new post, Who Blows Treasury Bubbles? Not 2% Big Money Managers The following are the latest Barron's Big Money Poll Results: So the Treasuries 'bubble' is blown by whom? Not big money...
View ArticleJim Z wrote a new post, Short Sellers Vindicated On Green Mountain Coffee
Jim Z wrote a new post, Short Sellers Vindicated On Green Mountain Coffee Governance questions and weaker fundamentals have given short-sellers of Green Mountain stock plenty of reasons to feel...
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Jim Z wrote a new post, Asset Correlation Trend: Government Bonds Are Still...
Jim Z wrote a new post, Asset Correlation Trend: Government Bonds Are Still The Best Hedge Against Stocks The following chart shows some of major ETFs' correlation with SPY (S&P 500): Apparently,...
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