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As the corporate world is moving at faster pace, exchange traded funds are gaining a lot of popularity among the investors compared to traditional funds. They are index based investment designed to imitate the index and give in the same return on the investment of the index. They are like equity which is easily traded on the stock market giving opportunity to purchase single/several shares, representing various equities.

Let’s look at benefits and disadvantages of exchange traded funds.

Benefits of exchange traded funds

  • Economical: one of the major benefit of ETF’s is that it’s less costly which means that everyone can afford to buy them and can easily maintain them. Commission charged on them is very low as only single transaction can be performed on per trade. Fees related with ETF’s are also comparatively lower than ordinary mutual funds.
  • Tax Friendly: capital gained on the ETF’s is lower than mutual funds because of the structure of actual trade. The main benefit is that the individual capital gains coming through ETF’s are not taxed until all the assets from the funds are sold, whereas, capital gains are directly taxed on mutual fund or index trade.
  • Easy to Manage: Unlike, other funds ETF’s don’t require any aggressive management. They need slight adjustments as they are establish to follow versus outperform an index. Due to this, risk involved is relatively low and requires low management fees.
  • Easy to follow: list of assets in funds is published on daily basis by the creator of ETF making it easy to follow and easy to understand compared to mutual funds which are not published often and are hard to understand. [click to continue…]

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Components of Money Supply

August 19, 2010

Money supply in the economy basically consists of the money you hold in your hand or your bank accounts. This might include your deposits, savings, cash, lease agreements, purchase agreements etc. This money supply is divided into three components which categorize the above mentioned factors in M0, M1 and M2.

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Interesting Facts about Forex Trading

June 16, 2010

Forex market was dominated by large institutions like banks and brokerage firms for several years. But from last few years Forex market had experienced a major change because of growing numbers of private investors and traders.

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Great Internships Can Build Strong Careers

February 20, 2010

This article is about internship opportunities. There are tips how to conduct research on the companies you want to work for. In this article one can also find tips about making strong resume and utilizing resources properly.

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How Stock Exchange Is Helpful In Economy Expansion?

February 1, 2010

those that are looking for required finances to expand the investment should think about floating the shares of their business in teh stock exchange as that is the cheapest and best way of accumulating the required money and that is too without any conditions.

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Forex Audacity — A Sketch!

January 17, 2010

a new marketing course targeting internet that acquaints to acquire $1000 a day and $30,000 per month. This turnkey system produce floods of income and as it is new so a sketch is drawn at it to guide you.

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How to Measure Abnormal Return in Stock Trading?

December 18, 2009

In the world of stock market trades, the financial performance by a single stock or portfolio of stocks that varies from the market average is referred to as the accepted abnormal return. An abnormal return can be positive or negative. Whether it is positive…

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What do you Understand by Time Value?

October 20, 2009

The portion of any option premium that is directly related to the amount of time remaining between the current date and the expiry date assigned to the warrant or options contract is referred to as Time value. Sometimes it is also known as a time premium. The worth or value of the option or warrant above and beyond the intrinsic or face value assigned to…

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What do you know about Crop Year?

October 17, 2009

The period of time it takes to go from one harvest to the next harvest is known as a crop year. If crops are only planted once per year then a crop year can approximately a calendar year in length. However, in some climates within a calendar year there can be…

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