This weekend in Barron's online: the Barron's ETF Roundtable, picks and pans from the Sohn Investment Conference, as well as the prospects for China Mobile, Flowserve, Brink's, Big 5 Sporting Goods and more.
Cover Story
"The New, Improved ETFs" by Beverly Goodman.
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are undergoing a bit of a renaissance, says this week's cover story in Barron's. Smart beta is the newest thing. It is an umbrella term for index investing that designed to beat the market, rather than just match it.
In order to explore these new indexing strategies, Barron's formed a roundtable of representatives of four firms that offer different approaches to indexing, as well as an independent financial advisor who has performed extensive research into how such indexes tend to perform.
See what the experts had to say about what smart beta means, how alternative indexing works, how these products differ from actively managed ETFs, whether such indexing could lead to increased regulation and what the bottom line is for investors.
See also:Doug Kass: 7 Important Bubbles In Our Current Market
Feature Stories
Andrew Bary's "China Mobile: A Cheap Play on Alibaba's Growth" makes a case that shares of China Mobile (NYSE: CHL), the world's largest wireless company, could offer ...
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