Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's

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Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's

S&P's Senior Editorial Manager Vaughan Scully can be reached at Vaughan_scully@standardandpoors.com. Send him your ideas for ETF and mutual fund stories.

• Quantitative Methodology ETFs Search for Better Performance

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  March 1, 2011

  ETFs owe much of their success to providing investors with exposure to asset classes that have been difficult for them to access in the past.

• Portfolio Fix: Adding Global Bond Funds for Diversification

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  February 11, 2011

  Three global-bond funds stood out from the rest as being worthy of further consideration.

• Emerging-Asia Equity ETFs: Investing in Global-Growth Leaders

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  February 4, 2011

  Several exchange-traded funds focus on the newly industrialized Asian economies.

• Replication Offers ETF Investors Hedge Fund Exposure

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  February 1, 2011

• Rising Oil Prices Bode Well for Energy ETFs

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  January 23, 2011

  Standard & Poor’s is expecting oil to hit $95.15 a barrel next year

• High-Yield Muni Bond Funds That Beat Treasuries

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  January 7, 2011

  Performance among these funds, though, has varied from a high of 3.62% to a loss of about 5% over the past five years

• For Real Estate Investors, Growth Is Overseas

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  January 1, 2011

  Since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, the resulting wave of loan foreclosures and the plunge in housing prices served to dim investor interest in real estate.

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  Energy ETFs Getting Lift From Rising Oil Prices

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  December 31, 2010

  Rising oil prices have helped energy stocks outperform the broader market in recent months.

• Gold Mutual Funds Deliver Strong Performance as Prices Soar

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  December 2, 2010

  Screening among the two dozen mutual funds targeting gold mining companies, three funds with a five-star rank from Standard & Poor's are deserving of your consideration.

• Despite Growth, More ETFs “Jump the Track”

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  December 1, 2010

  Most ETFs track an index instead of employing a professional manager, and inevitably there is a lag between the performance of the index and the fund's net asset value.