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rcarrick@globeandmail.comWelcome to the investing mainstream, ETFs. You've got buzz, you've got momentum and now you've got issues.Exchange-traded funds are the smaller but faster-growing rival to mutual funds. This week, they received a unique endorsement when one of the country's biggest fund companies, Invesco Trimark, introduced a lineup of eight funds that are basically a vehicle that investment advisers can use to put ETFs in client portfolios (read more here: tgam.ca/DnR).
swon@globeandmail.comWHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?Leaders among Canadian-listed equity exchange-traded funds (ETFS) this year.Global stock markets have staged a sharp comeback after last year's market collapse, and ETFs are one way to play the rebound. ETFs are similar to mutual funds but trade like stocks. There are brokerage fees to pay when buying ETFs, but they can be low when dealing with a discount broker.
Some recent comments by Warren Buffett should be mandatory reading for anyone who works with or plans to engage an investment adviser.
Most investors have undoubtedly noted that commodity stocks have been the place to be the past few years. Lucky are those who jumped on what was then a slow-moving freight train at the bottom of the commodity cycle around 2001 and then hung on when the pace of that train sped up dramatically.
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