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What Would Ho Chi Minh Think?
By Bob KeaneVan Eck became the latest firm to offer a country specific ETF with the August 14 launch of its Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSE Arca: VNM).
August 06, 2009
Build a Low Correlation PortfolioAlphaSimplex Group's Andrew Lo launches a multi-strategy, absolute-return fund: Natixis ASG Diversifying Strategies Fund (DSFAX).
August 03, 2009
The Hangover-Free Summer Party: Searching for Alpha, August 2009How long can the market continue to rally with an absence of genuine economic growth? July's gain of 7.82% in the S&P 500 puts that index's five-month return at over 34%.
August 01, 2009
The Green Advisor: Cleaner Air and CashAlthough the climate bill that passed the House of Representatives in June went through many changes on its way to securing a majority of support,...
August 01, 2009
Asset AllocationBehind the Numbers, with Mark Balasa Although risk remains, Balasa says that he and his colleagues in the Alpha Group have "a growing optimism around some...
August 01, 2009
Venture Populist: Positive Asymmetrical OutcomesRecent proclamations in this column and venturepopulist.com blog posts that "MPT failed" in the crisis of 2008 have elicited a distinctively binary response from wealth...
August 01, 2009
Alternative Energy Twisting in the WindLast July in this column ("Energy Is in the Air"), I wrote enthusiastically about T. Boone Pickens's plans to build the world's largest wind farm...