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Investing-Related New Year’s Resolutions

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 took a look back at the financial markets in 2011 and also previewed what to look for in 2012.  As with 2011, the European debt crisis and the slow U.S. economic recovery remain front and center in 2012.

In addition, to begin the New Year, we offered several investing-related New Year’s resolutions that you may want to consider adopting as your own.  Every year, there are a lot of New Year’s resolutions that get bandied about – exercise more, eat better, quit smoking.  However, we have some New Year’s resolutions that just might be easier to implement, easier to stick to, and best of all, they very well may put your portfolio in a much better position for many years to come.

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Ten Reasons ETFs Are Better Than Mutual Funds

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, to close out 2011, we discussed a recent article from etfdb.com titled “Ten Reasons ETFs Are Better than Mutual Funds”.  We covered quite a bit of ground on our radio show in the second half of 2011 and we thought this article did an excellent job of summarizing many of the key points we’ve continued to emphasize.

As we head into 2012, we would encourage all investors to think about these benefits in terms of their own portfolios and ask themselves if they’re taking advantage of these benefits.  If not, why?  If your advisor still has you invested in actively managed mutual funds, present them with this list and ask them to explain the reasoning.  Ask them if they get a kickback to put you in actively managed mutual funds.  You may not like what you hear.

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Fidelity to Offer ETFs?

A company known primarily for its actively managed mutual funds might finally be coming to grips with the fact that they can no longer just ignore the fast growing ETF space.  According to The Wall Street Journal, Fidelity Investments appears set to begin offering a broad array of ETFs after recently filing an application with the SEC.

As we explained way back in May of 2009, ETFs were “Eating Fidelity’s Lunch”.  Back then, it had already become clear that a primary reason for Fidelity’s deteriorating asset levels was the rapid growth of ETFs.  Fidelity was clearly concerned with entering a market that was an obvious competitor to their lucrative actively managed mutual fund business.  Remember, actively managed mutual funds charge significantly higher fees than ETFs (and more often than not, underperform the same benchmarks those ETFs are tracking).  Unfortunately for Fidelity, investors have continued to vote with their money and it looks as if Fidelity is finally realizing where the future of investing is heading.

As they say, better late than never…