ETF insights

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 discussed the latest actions taken by the Federal Reserve and more importantly, how those actions can [...]

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 spent some time discussing some of the more popular emerging markets ETFs including VWO, EEM, and [...]

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 explained the common mistakes or shortcomings that we tend to see in people’s investment portfolios including: [...]

Do you have commodities in your investment portfolio? Commodity investing seems to be all the rage these days. Before adding commodities to your investment portfolio, you should answer two questions.  First, why invest in commodities?  Second, what is the best way to invest in them? What is a commodity? A commodity is simply a good [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 another timely, year-end topic – tax loss harvesting.  ETFs are an excellent investment tool to [...]

The following is an excerpt from the article “Turning Fund Distribution on Its Head” by Scott Burns and Paul Justice of Morningstar.  Read the full article here. The arguments over which is the better vehicle, ETFs or mutual funds, usually get bogged down in quarrels about active versus passive (which is a different debate), investor [...]

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 discussed the latest on the debt crisis in Europe and some ETFs with European exposure that [...]