ETF Prime Archive

Emerging Market Equity ETFs

Listen to The ETF Store Show every Saturday at 4pm on KCMO Talk Radio 710AM as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.

On our most recent radio show, we spent some time discussing some of the more popular emerging markets ETFs including VWO, EEM, and SCHE.  While emerging markets were down nearly 20% in 2011, they’re off to a strong start in 2012 and we explained why having a material allocation to emerging markets in your portfolio is still important over the next decade.

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Fixing Common Investment Portfolio Mistakes with ETFs

Listen to The ETF Store Show every Saturday at 4pm on KCMO Talk Radio 710AM as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.

On our most recent radio show, we explained the common mistakes or shortcomings that we tend to see in people’s investment portfolios including:

• Overpaying for investments
• Using a cookie-cutter allocation with no disciplined investment strategy
• Failing to use alternative asset classes
• Overlapping mutual funds
• Investing in individual stocks and/or bonds
• Underperformance

We discussed each of these issues in detail and more importantly, explained how you can fix each of these issues by using ETFs.

Listen to the full show here.

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