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.

• ETF Focus: International Dividend ETFs for a Low Interest-Rate Environment

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  November 28, 2010

  One asset class that Standard & Poor's Equity Research believes offers both attractive yields as well as potential for further growth is international dividend stocks. International...

• The Trouble with Target-Date ETFs

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

  One by one, the rollout of new exchange-traded funds has begun to challenge mutual fund providers for investor asset share.

• ETF Expert: As ETF Offerings Expand, More Funds “Jump the Track”

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  October 29, 2010

  Morgan Stanley study found 37.5% of ETFs had a tracking error of more than 100 basis points in '09

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  The Most Attractive Microcap Funds

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  October 8, 2010

  For those who are interested in putting some portion of their holdings into an equity fund that is not dominated by stocks they already own in other funds, there are microcap funds.

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  ETF Expert: Software ETFs Programmed for Industry’s Revival

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

  Average revenue growth in the software field was 15% last year, and most industry players expect even stronger growth this year. Here's a look at two exchange-traded funds and one exchange-traded trust that let investors target the U.S. software industry.

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  What Trading Volume Says About ETFs

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

  By now, advisors and even most investors understand the way exchange-traded funds (ETFs) operate. One issue, however, that seems to be a cause of confusion...

• Small-Cap Value Funds Thrive with Low Rates, Weak Economy: Mutual Fund Focus, September 2010

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  September 23, 2010

  Now that low interest rates and a sluggish economy seem to have insinuated themselves into a state of apparent semi-permanence

• The ETF Advisor: New ETFs in 2010 for Hedge Funds, Foreign Stocks and MLPs

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

  Like the elves in Santa's workshop who toil year-round making gifts for well-behaved children, providers of exchange-traded funds have been hard at work this year...

• Fundamental Versus Market Cap Weighting

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

  ETFs swap market cap for sales, earnings weightings.

• Mid-Cap Value Funds Deliver Outsized Performance: Mutual Fund Focus, August 2010

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  August 25, 2010

  Mid-cap stocks seem to suffer from a perennial identity crisis. One the one hand, they are too small to command the dominant positions in large