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YieldShares Founder Magoon on Income Investing & ETFs

Nate Geraci September 19, 2013

Listen to The ETF Store Show every Tuesday at 9am on ESPN 1510 as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.

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On our most recent radio broadcast, YieldShares Founder and ETF industry veteran Christian Magoon joined us to talk about the YieldShares High Income ETF (ticker YYY) as well as some of the potential benefits of Exchange Traded Funds.  Christian is well-versed in the industry, having been involved in the launch of some 50 ETFs.  He’s also been recognized by Financial Planning magazine as an “ETF Pioneer” and Institutional Investor has named him one of the “Five People to Watch in The U.S. ETF Industry”.  We asked Christian about the roadmap to success for an upstart ETF sponsor such as YieldShares and explained why these new entrants into the ETF market should have investors excited about the future of investing.

We also spent some time on the show reemphasizing the role of international stocks in your portfolio, particularly in light of the recent outperformance of international stocks compared to US stocks.  For a variety of reasons, many US-based investors tend to load up on US stocks and significantly underweight (or ignore altogether) international stocks.  We explained why developed international and emerging market stocks can be important components of a well-diversified portfolio.  For investors who primarily hold US stocks, we would recommend reviewing this wonderful chart from Callan Associates which shows how different asset classes have performed over the past twenty years.  You might be surprised to learn that international stocks were the top performer more often than US stocks.  There are a number of broad-based, extremely low cost ETFs that offer international stock exposure and we discussed several on the show.

Why Investment Costs Matter

Nate Geraci September 12, 2013

Listen to The ETF Store Show every Tuesday at 9am on ESPN 1510 as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.

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If you understand nothing else about your portfolio, you should know this one simple fact:  Mutual funds and ETFs both charge you money to invest in them.  Period.  End of story.  This will come as a surprise to some or simply be a small reminder to others.  Regardless, the fact remains that you must shell out your hard earned money for the privilege of investing in these products.  Now, that’s not necessarily a bad thing – the key is you must understand exactly what you’re paying for and what you’re getting in return.  We discussed on our most recent radio broadcast and helped decode confusing investment jargon like “expense ratios”.  We also explored why mutual funds are typically much more expensive than ETFs and we tackled a common misperception among investors – that higher priced funds deliver better performance.  Most importantly, we explained how investment costs can be the difference between meeting your financial goals and coming up short.

In our weekly market update, we talked jobs report, including why the financial markets viewed the most recent jobs report (which showed the unemployment rate ticking down) as bad news and why the stock market went up in response to this bad news.  In our weekly ETF Spotlight segment, we highlighted the United States Oil Fund (ticker USO), which holds futures contracts for light sweet crude oil.  With the spot price of oil up sharply over the past several months and tensions flaring in the Middle East, this ETF can be an easy, cost effective way to gain exposure to oil.  Learn more about USO by visiting www.etfbuzz.com.

Choosing the Right ETFs

Nate Geraci September 4, 2013

Listen to The ETF Store Show every Tuesday at 9am on ESPN 1510 as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.

Click here to listen to The ETF Store Show now.

With over 1,500 ETFs available and nearly 1,000 more filed with the SEC, it’s becoming a bigger challenge for investors to choose the right ETFs for their portfolios.  For example, if you run a basic screen on emerging market equity ETFs, it can yield more than 150 ETFs from which to choose.  Obviously, there are going to be significant differences between these ETFs – from country exposure to index tracked to cost.  While the growth and innovation in the ETF industry is no doubt a net positive for investors, the downside is that finding the right ETFs for your situation is now more cumbersome than ever.  On our most recent radio broadcast, we walked through the basics on how to choose the right ETFs for your portfolio, including the most important factors to consider.  We also discussed some of the free online tools available to help with this process.

In our weekly market update, we talked Syria and its impact on the financial markets.  With investors already on edge over a laundry list of concerns including Fed taper talk and the upcoming debt ceiling debate, a potential military confrontation in Syria is the last thing they want to hear.  However, investors would be wise to consider how the market has fared historically in these types of situations.  The lesson?  Investors who didn’t overreact to these events, on average, have ended up better off within a very short-time frame after the particular event.  In our weekly ETF Spotlight segment, we looked at the Vanguard Total International Bond ETF (ticker BNDX).  International bonds make up approximately 35% of the world’s total investible assets (which is larger than international stocks, US stocks, or US bonds), yet this asset class tends to be significantly underrepresented in investor portfolios.  BNDX can be a low cost way to access this exposure.  Learn more about BNDX by visiting www.etfbuzz.com.

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