Wikinvest Wire

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

No Content?

Very little anyway.

Last night as my wife watched the painfully long season finally of Amazing Race I searched for websites that provide insight about ETFs. I was woefully disappointed. All of the big media outlets and brokerage firms have ETF centers. I have written about a couple of portfolio building products recently but this was a quest for subjective opinion.

The various ETF centers were really just listings of ETFs. Some went so far as to group them by category. I found plenty of sites willing to sell timing services using ETFs. Every one I found had market beating returns for every time period. I didn't think everyone could be above average.

Bill Cara and David Jackson's ETF Investor Blog offer some great commentary. Bill wrote up a bunch of excellent content when he started his new site and ETF Investor offers David's opinion and opinions from other people, including me, as well. You should explore David's sites. The ETF content is great.

I've written a few times that I try to learn from process not product. Finding content about process is still difficult and that is surprising. Plenty of media outlets have occasional quality content but it is not very steady.

Ditto CEFs.

I almost forgot Index Universe. They have good content but they don't publish new stuff very often.

If you know of a site that has consistently good insight and opinion, please let me know.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Roger....Don Coxe's weekly commentary, which focuses primarily on dividend paying stocks and resources (oil & mining), and his monthly "Basic Points" articles give his perspective on these investment and or economic area's. He doesn't give specific stock recommendations, but tends to give examples of companies he's comenting about..ie. BAC or PD for example. However, he does give an allocations by general securites type, stocks, bonds, foreign, etc.
I find his commentary straight forward and thought provoking.
the website for this is:
http://www.jonesheward.com/Commentary/p_Commentary.aspx

.....Dave

Anonymous said...

I re-read your question and realized I answered the wrong question. Coxe does not comment on CEF's or ETF's.
....Dave

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