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The ETF Investor

Nerina Visser, CFA

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The ETF Investor – brought to you by the ETF Specialists, ETFSA. Through this podcast series we bring you insight and understanding of ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds), clarity on how to best use it in any type of investment portfolio, technical details of what happens inside the ETF, and practical advice on how to choose ETFs for your investment wants and needs.
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Canadian Couch Potato is a podcast designed to help you become a better investor with index funds and ETFs. It is hosted by veteran journalist, blogger, and portfolio manager Dan Bortolotti. Dan offers straight-up, practical advice for Canadians who want to learn more about index investing, whether they manage their own portfolios or work with an advisor. Episodes typically feature an interview with an expert on a specific investing or financial planning topic. In a segment called “Bad Inves ...
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Traditional index-tracking ETFs require an index to track. So what if there is no index, like in the case of balanced funds, or multi-asset portfolios? The construct of an actively-managed ETF provides an ideal solution for simple, straightforward, strategic, static asset allocation strategies in a cost-effective, rules-based, transparent investmen…
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With the top of the global interest rate cycle in focus, we turn our attention to the outlook for listed property companies and REITs, and the range of exchange-traded product options available on the JSE. There is more to consider than just the interest rate cycle, and we investigate how active management can be applied in global property ETF inve…
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For many investors the term ETF is synonymous with index-tracking, or so-called “passive” investments, and the concept of an actively-managed ETF therefore represents a contradiction in terms. But the term “active management” does not necessarily mean lots of activity or significant tracking differences to the reference index, and it offers opportu…
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Roxanna Islam, Head of Sector and Industry Research at VettaFi, discusses the benefits and flaws of applying rules-based investing to closed-end funds. She notes that changes in the industry have forced changes on a rules-guided index of closed-end funds, and how that is impacting the holdings and asset allocation of the fund-of-funds that some inv…
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Factor- and style-based investment strategies continue to evolve and attract the attention of portfolio managers and analysts alike. But when an ETF Manco proposes the amalgamation of two of their factor-based ETFs into a vanilla, size-based ETF, the inevitable question arises about the future of factor investing.…
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There is so much more to investment on the stock exchange than buying shares in local companies, and the strong growth in bond ETFs are testimony to the attraction of a whole new world for investors. Whether you think “bonds are boring”, or “the bond market is the smartest in the world”, this discussion on actively-managed bond ETFs is bound to exp…
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As central banks continue with the interest rate mantra of “higher-for-longer”, the uncertainty of the timing and speed of expected rate cuts present specific challenges for investors looking for stable and inflation-beating income. An active strategy through this period of volatility and uncertainty can offer specific benefits, but do you understa…
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VettaFi's head of research, Todd Rosenbluth joins Chuck Jaffe to discuss what investors should consider when evaluating ETFs and what’s in favor in the current environment on this special episode of ETF of the Week. This was originally featured on a segment “Money Life” with Chuck Jaffe. For more information on Exchange visit https://www.exchangeet…
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