Everything About ETFs

The first exchange-traded fund (SPY) emerged in 1993. Today, ETFs are a $1.44 trillion market that’s covered extraordinarily well in the August 1013 issue of The AAII Journal. See:

http://www.aaii.com/files/journal/etfguide/etfguide082013.pdf

Plenty of useful information on ETFs is dished out free to all who visit the site, but only members of the not-for-profit American Association of Individual Investors have access to every word and number in the August 2013 issue’s virtual library of information about exchange-traded funds—including this spreadsheet (contributed by Morningstar):

http://www.aaii.com/files/journal/etfguide/alletfs082013.pdf#page=28&zoom=auto,0,774

I may be among those who prefer the original version of the spreadsheet at Morningstar. See it there:

http://news.morningstar.com/etf/Lists/ETFReturns.html

Using it, I was able to identify (within three minutes) the (only) two ETFs up double digits in the last 3 years, 1 year, 3 months, 1 month, and 2013 through Aug. 14: LTL and  QQQC. The latter is my ETF of the day in my companion post for today.

Two other ETF resources I often visit:

• http://etfdb.com/

Here, be sure to see:

http://etfdb.com/2012/safe-haven-etf-portfolio-for-conservative-investors-sneak-peek/

• http://finance.yahoo.com/etf/

Be sure to see: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7lkK9wxSRxwAO4pXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&type=8PO4QG09N&fr=skyh&p=best+safest+etfs&rs=0&fr2=rs-bottom

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