
Paul Amery is the former European editor of ETF.com.
Paul Amery is the former European editor of ETF.com.
Very few ETF investors have profited from the continuing widening in credit spreads, even thought the vehicles are there for them to do so.
Jim, I'm going to sidestep your provocative remarks on Japan for a blog or two.
Matt, your comments have made me think long and hard about why I'm holding Japanese equities.
If an ETF issuer, services provider or custodian bank went bankrupt, how long would it take for investors to get their money back?
Jim, my pension plan is still two-thirds invested in gold and silver ETCs, so you can hardly accuse me of being bullish - and I wasn't the one to put my money in the financials ETF!
What would happen if an ETF issuer, providers of services to an ETF, or the ETF custodian bank went bankrupt, and how long would investors have to wait to get their money back?
How much bad news has been priced into bank debt and equity prices, and are markets getting too pessimistic?
Jim, I don't believe that the authorities can bail out the financial system, even if they want to. And in my view the big mistake of last September was not the Lehman collapse, but the AIG rescue.