Does anyone still watch Marketwatch Weekend?
This week Gus Sauter from Vanguard was on talking about ETFs. Vanguard has made a real effort to become a presence in the ETF industry. So far it has not done much to differentiate though.
Mr. Sauter has a lot of experience managing money and is a decision maker at an important firm. The interview had the potential to dig deep and really be about something.
Instead the interview focused a definition of ETFs and how important, or not, an ETF that invests in the S+P 500 is for investors to have in their portfolios. Big dud.
I have written before about ETF coverage. There seems to be a shortage of quality ETF analysis in the main stream media. There are a lot of very smart people doing interesting things with ETFs and I think being able to access a little of this strategy, through interviews and other coverage could be very beneficial.
All articles now seem to devote too much space to an ETF is a basket of stocks that trades throughout the day on an exchange. Back when PowerShares came out with its dividend based ETF to sort of compete with DVY (personal holding) every media outlet on the web (it is possible I have exaggerated here) wrote an article comparing the two. Likewise after the second China ETF (BTW I did an article for Motley Fool comparing the China ETFs, but I think mine was very early on in this wave).
I have tried to provide analysis of ETFs, and CEFs for that matter, that goes deeper than the mainstream sites. I try to analyze holdings, study correlation and offer innovative ideas about how to utilize these products. For as much as I write it would be logical to assume that my conclusions will be correct sometimes and incorrect other times but I am trying to share process. There are other blogs that provide similar analysis, that I have mentioned before.
If you would like to see mainstream sites offer articles about ETFs with more meat on the bone I would encourage you to email into sites like MSN or Marketwatch and other big sites and ask for better content.
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1 comments:
Your comment on the dearth [death? :)] of good analysis does not just apply to ETFs. This is prevalent throughout the mainstream media. If you want real analysis, you either have to do it yourself, subscribe to a high-end publication, or do a lot of highly-filtered blog reading...
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