The Winner of ETF Price Wars? You!
Nate Geraci
February 5, 2013
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Welcome to the ETF Prime Podcast
One of the “most helpful plain-English resources for investors who want to demystify exchange-traded funds” – Bloomberg Businessweek
Latest Episode
GraniteShares’ Will Rhind on Rise of Options-Based ETFs
Will Rhind, Founder & CEO of GraniteShares, dives into their YieldBOOST lineup of ETFs and offers perspective on the growing demand for options-based ETF strategies overall. Zeno Mercer, Senior Research Analyst at VettaFi, breaks down one of the hottest segments in the market: artificial intelligence ETFs. He covers fund flows, performance trends, and the key drivers behind investor interest.
About the Podcast
ETF Prime is hosted by Nate Geraci. Learn how to make ETFs a part of your investment portfolio as Nate spotlights individual ETFs and interviews experts from across the country. ETF Prime is available on Apple Podcasts, Android, Spotify, and most other major podcasting platforms. Specific guest interviews can be accessed by visiting the ETF Expert Corner.
Recent Episodes
USCF CIO John Hyland on Commodity ETFs
Nate Geraci
January 30, 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, John Hyland, Chief Investment Officer for United States Commodity Funds, joined us to discuss investing in commodities and commodity exchange traded products. At The ETF Store, we believe commodities can play a very important role for most long-term investors as part of a well-diversified portfolio. Commodities have traditionally served as an excellent inflation hedge and can potentially offer substantial portfolio diversification benefits. ETFs have changed the game for investors by offering easy and cost effective access to commodity exposure that, in the past, would have typically been reserved for sophisticated, wealthy, and/or institutional investors. ETFs have essentially “democratized” commodity investing. John offered his thoughts on commodities as an investment and discussed the potential benefits of investing in commodities through exchange traded products. John also delved into some specific commodity sectors that currently seem appealing.
In our weekly market update, we discussed the 35%+ decline in Apple (AAPL) and explained how an ETF such as the Powershares QQQ (QQQ) could be a better way to go for diversified exposure to Apple. We also explained the so-called “earnings cliff” (no – not the “fiscal cliff”) and how it could potentially impact your investments. Finally, in our ETF spotlight segment, we highlighted a particularly interesting broad based commodity ETF, the United States Commodity Index Fund (ticker USCI), and described how this ETF differs from some of the other broad based commodity exchange traded products. We also compared this ETF to one of the largest commodity mutual funds.
USCF CIO John Hyland on Commodity ETFs
Nate Geraci
January 29, 2013
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Happy 20th Birthday, ETFs!
Nate Geraci
January 25, 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, we celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the launch of the first ever U.S. listed exchange traded fund – the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (ticker SPY). While many investors tend to view ETFs as a relatively new innovation, ETFs have actually been around for twenty years thanks to the largest and most popular ETF, SPY, which was created on January 22nd, 1993. Since that time, ETFs have grown into a $1.4 trillion monster with no signs of slowing down. Stoyan Bojinov from ETF Database joined us on the program to offer his thoughts on “ETFs at 20” and also discuss what lies ahead for the industry over the next twenty years. We explained how SPY really encapsulates why investors are gravitating towards passively managed ETFs, while at the same time shunning actively managed mutual funds – namely because ETFs tend to be cheaper, more tax efficient, offer greater transparency, and can minimize the risk of underperformance that has plagued so many actively managed mutual funds. We also discussed an excellent interactive tool that ETF Database created in honor of the 20-year anniversary of SPY which shows the top ten components of the S&P 500 index going all the way back to 1980. While the chart is certainly a stroll down memory lane, it can also offer some very important investing lessons as we described on the show.
In our weekly market update, we discussed some of the highlights from our recently released quarterly market commentary including our outlook for global equities and why individual investors have essentially underperformed every major asset class over the past twenty years. Finally, in our ETF spotlight segment, we examined a country specific ETF, the SPDR S&P China ETF (ticker GXC), and explained where China might fit in your investment portfolio.
Emotional Investing Leads to Underperformance
Nate Geraci
January 25, 2013
Blackrock recently conducted a very interesting study whereby they examined 20-year investment returns for the average investor. The results were not good. Over a 20-year period from 1992 – 2011, the average investor underperformed every single major asset class. Here are the numbers:
The primary reason for this disastrous performance by individual investors is reacting emotionally to volatility in the financial markets. Financial markets have always been, and will always be, volatile. This chart underscores the importance of having a financial advisor. A financial advisor can help you develop a long-term investment plan and provide that objective, unemotional voice of reason during those periods of volatility to help you avoid the common pitfalls that befall the average investor. At The ETF Store, we’re here to help implement the right investment plan for you and our disciplined strategies can take the emotion out of investing. Don’t be an average investor.