Matt Hougan is CEO of Inside ETFs, a division of Informa PLC. He spearheads the world's largest ETF conferences and webinars. Hougan is a three-time member of the Barron's ETF Roundtable and co-author of the CFA Institute’s monograph, "A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Trade Funds."
WTI crude oil slips back into contango, and everything else is there already. What’s an investor to do?
The senior commodity analyst for MF Global considers what will happen to commodities in the event of a recession.
One question I get asked a lot is if I think there is a bubble in the ETF market. A large number of new ETF companies launched last year, and there is a feeling that some of them won't make it. People are waiting … some of them eagerly … for the first one to go bust.
Investors are increasingly frustrated with the growing correlation between large-cap U.S. and large-cap international stocks, and they're turning to small-cap international for help. The theory is that small-cap companies will be more closely tied to local economic conditions, and as a result, will offer more of a diversification benefit than large-caps. A recent study by Steven Schoenfeld and Stefanie Jaron in the Journal of Indexes ("International Equities," Jan/Feb 2008) supported this idea with hard data.
What commodity markets performed well in 2007, and which are primed to outperform in 2008?
A survey of leading experts in the field
Jim Rogers calls China an “incipient bubble.” If that’s true, what does that mean for the commodities market?
As it turns out, submitting a personal letter request to the IRS is not as easy as it might seem. There are legal issues to consider, user fees to pay, and a 77-page instructions manual that reads like Finnegan's Wake...