Beth Piskora

• ETF Advisor: Cr?me de la Cr?me--The Best-Performing ETFs for the Long Run

  By Beth Piskora  |  July 1, 2009

  Quick, what do these three exchange-traded funds--Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR, iShares Dow Jones U.S. Energy Sector, and Vanguard Consumer Staples--have in common? They are the...

• Mutual Fund Sector Focus: Ringing Up Profits? Telecom Mutual Funds

  By Beth Piskora  |  March 1, 2009

  The reluctance on the part of the new Commander in Chief to part with his preferred mobile communications device, despite the interests of greater national...

• The Long and the Short of It

  By Beth Piskora  |  February 1, 2009

  As 2008 played out, filled with bad news from the hedge fund industry, the practice of shorting stocks--a popular hedge fund strategy--got dragged through the...

• Focus on Financials

  By Beth Piskora  |  January 1, 2009

  No doubt about it: 2008 was a bad year for financial services stocks. The S&P 500 financial services index registered a 60% downturn through December...

• Finding a Balance

  By Beth Piskora  |  December 1, 2008

  Since mid-September, market volatility has been hitting all-time highs, with crazy rides up and down (often within the same day); it thus may come as...

• Capitalism Comes To China

  By Beth Piskora  |  November 1, 2008

  Market participants may find some irony in the idea that as the capitalist West embarks on bailouts and nationalization, the still--officially--Communist nation of China is...

• Funds Get Real Amid Unreal Housing Market

  By Beth Piskora  |  October 1, 2008

  For many homeowners, the real estate market has turned, well, unreal.The average home price fell 18.22% since its peak in the second quarter of 2006,...

• Go East, Young Man!

  By Beth Piskora  |  September 1, 2008

  For investors interested in diversifying their portfolios with European holdings, the best advice may be to look to the emerging markets of Eastern Europe, as...