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• The Commodity Wave

  By Ron DeLegge, ETFguide.com  |  December 20, 2012

  As an asset class, commodities have always been like Rodney Dangerfield; they can’t get any respect.

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  Metals & Markets Showing Further Divergence

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  March 16, 2012

  In recent weeks, the prices of key metals have fallen sharply from recent highs; meanwhile, major stock indexes have moved up nicely.

• Making Tax Savvy Choices

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  October 26, 2011

  Tax efficiency has long been sold as among the greatest advantages of ETF investing. Although that may have been true ten years ago, when most ETFs were linked to traditional stock and bond indexes, it isn’t necessarily true anymore.

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  FRC Says $45 Billion Flowed Into Equity, Fixed Income Mutual Funds in April

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  June 3, 2011

  May ETF outflows, however, were $1 billion, according to IndexUniverse.

• Exotic ETFs Come with Peculiar Tax Consequences

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  January 4, 2010

  Holdings of more exotic ETFs--those that own precious metals, commodity or currency futures, or other types of derivatives--are treated differently for tax purposes from the stocks and bonds owned by plain vanilla ETFs.

• The ETF Advisor: Precious Metal ETFs

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  November 1, 2009

  What makes precious metals funds so attractive is that they offer investors the ability to gain unleveraged exposure to gold and other precious metals without...

• Ratios Continue to Fall in Q2

  By Staff Writer  |  July 1, 2006

  Low expenses have been driving the popularity of ETFs, and investors haven't been disappointed. Across all categories, ETF expense ratios were consistently lower in the...