January 2007
Surveying The Expanding Menu of Core Equity ETFs.
By James Picerno
How do you define a core equity exchange-traded fund? it’s
a simple question for a crucial subject, and it comes with increasingly
nuanced (and controversial) answers.
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January 2007
A weatlh manager warns that it's time to rethink emerging markets as a strategic holding.
By James Picerno
Emerging markets equities have been a hot investment in the last few years, but a review of the longer run has cooled Jeffrey Troutner’s enthusiasm for the asset class. The chill is notable because the president of TAM Asset Management in Tiburon, Calif. was an early proponent of owning developing-country stocks. As Troutner recently told Wealth Manager, he started adding emerging markets to client portfolios in the mid-1990s—about the time the asset class began attracting mainstream attention for the first time.
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