Commodities belong in a diversified portfolio, but not every commodity-based ETF is sound. Many commodity funds show up on this month’s ETF Liquidation Watch list, a portfolio of ETFs that suffer negative trailing 12-month returns and fall below ...
The industry’s buzzing about the dramatic growth in the ETF market, but so far this year 30 ETFs have closed down. Here’s a list of some ETFs that advisors may want to avoid.
It’s a widely held myth that thinly traded ETFs lack liquidity. But the structure of the funds means liquidity is more a matter of underlying securities.
Some managers are rolling out long/short bond funds meant to hedge against rising interest rates. But the success of their strategy rests on a market call, and no one can predict when rates will rise.