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
Rethinking Sector ETFs & Baron Capital’s ETF Debut
Michael Cohick, Director of Product Management at VanEck, breaks down the firm’s lineup of TruSector ETFs and how they aim to address tracking error caused by regulatory diversification limits – constraints that can force traditional sector funds to underweight the largest companies in their benchmarks. Matt Camuso, Head of ETF Solutions at Baron Capital, discusses the firm’s recent entry into the ETF space and outlines its distinctive approach to actively managed growth equity investing, including the Baron First Principles ETF (RONB).
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
Is Your Portfolio Missing Alternative Assets?
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Investing in Fixed Income 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 delved into an area of investing that some people may find intimidating – investing in bonds (or fixed income). Our experience is that many people understand what a bond is, but they may not know exactly where to begin when deciding which bonds to invest in. During our broadcast, we discussed the current bond market in general and more importantly, why investors should strongly consider ETFs for the fixed income portion of their portfolio instead of trying to select individuals bonds or use actively managed fixed income mutual funds. Using either of the latter two options is typically a recipe for underperformance.
Passively managed funds like ETFs, which track bond indexes like the Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index, can be significantly cheaper than actively managed mutual funds and avoid the risk of manager underperformance. Gaining broad fixed income exposure very inexpensively, while minimizing the risk of manager underperformance, is the winning combination that we look for at The ETF Store. We also discussed some specific bond ETFs that you can consider for your portfolio including BND, TIP, MUB, and PCY. Listen to the full show here to learn more about investing in fixed income ETFs.
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Do You Have a Master Investment Plan in Place?
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 broadcast, we explained why you should consider consolidating all of your investment accounts under one roof if you have accounts with multiple firms or advisors. While this strategy can make sense in some cases, particularly for high net worth investors, it can be a huge detriment for the majority of people. Chief among the many concerns of this approach is a lack of an overall investment plan. It can be extremely difficult to have a well-rounded, properly diversified portfolio if you have too many cooks in the kitchen. And this is to say nothing of the various fees, mess of statements, multiple account logins, and various calls from advisors that come with this “strategy”.
If you’re someone who has investment accounts scattered across town, it’s time to round them up and put a real investment plan in place. We explained how The ETF Store can help you do this by combining your investments under a single custodian (such as Charles Schwab) and implementing a customized investment strategy across all of your accounts, potentially with much lower costs (and fewer headaches) than you currently have. Listen to the full show here to learn more about why you should consider consolidating your investment accounts with one firm and how this could make tracking your investments so much easier.
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Do You Have a Master Investment Plan in Place?
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