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Holdings of “World’s Greatest Investors”
SmartMoney featured four individuals they call “The World’s Greatest Investors.” Where fearful investors see threatening surf, the most successful pros see big-kahuna waves that they can ride to profits. We focused this year’s installment of “The World’s Greatest Investors” on four people who’ve proved they can make good money in stocks even in difficult times. [...]
ETFs: The More the Merrier
SmartMoney took note of the 130 new ETFs launched this year, but describes many of them as “ETFs for Everyone Except You,” The universe of exchange-traded funds is still rapidly expanding, but the growing landscape is threatening to leave small investors lost in a maze of new options. What’s making the ETF marketplace more complex [...]
The “WP” Ratio: Three Above-Average Companies
What if you measured companies not by earnings per share – but by productivity per worker? We could call this the “Worker Productivity,” or WP ratio. In a recent SmartMoney article, Jack Hough highlights three companies that reported higher than average profits per employee. Jack doesn’t share any information on how he compiled the data, [...]
The ETF Deathwatch: Funds on the Brink
In a recent SmartMoney article, “ETF Report Card: Bullishly Treading Water,” Will Swarts notes that while ETFs as an investing instrument are growing in popularity, the ETF business is getting a lot more competitive. That means some funds “will be left by the wayside.” Swarts talked to Ron Rowland, who runs an “ETF Deathwatch” site. [...]
