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Investment Style Rankings For ETFs & Mutual Funds

February 2, 2013 – 3:33 pm

None of the fund styles earn a rating better than Neutral. My style ratings are based on the aggregation of my fund ratings for every ETF and mutual fund in each style.

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research, Mutual Fund Research | Also tagged GMO Trust: GMO Quality Fund, GQLOX, Johnson & Johnson, MXCAX, OfficeMax Inc., OMX, Style Rankings, Touchstone Strategic Trust: Touchstone Micro Cap Value Fund | Comments (0)

How To Avoid the Worst Sector ETFs

December 18, 2012 – 10:14 am

Why are there so many ETFs? The answer is: because ETF providers are making lots of money selling them. The number of ETFs has little to do with serving investors’ best interests. Here are three red flags investors can use to avoid the worst ETFs…

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research | Also tagged DIG, ETF ratings, Financial Select Sector SPDR, Free Archive, J&J, Johnson and Johnson, Materials Select Sector SPDR, PowerShares Lux Nanotech, PowerShares S&P SmallCap Cons Stpls, PowerShares S&P SmallCap Energy, PowerShares S&P SmallCap Indust., PowerShares S&P SmallCap Materials, ProShares Ultra Consumer Goods, ProShares Ultra Health Care, ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas, ProShares Ultra Semiconductors, ProShares Ultra Technology, PSCC, PSCE, PSCI, PSCM, PXN, ROM, RXL, SCHH, Schwab U.S. REIT ETF, Simon Property Group, SPDR Homebuilders ETF, SPDR S&P Biotech ETF, SPG, UGE, USD, Utilities Select Sector SPDR, Vanguard REIT ETF, Vanguard Telecom ETF, VNQ, VOX, XBI, XHB, XLB, XLF, XLU | Comments (1)

How To Find the Best Sector ETFs

November 30, 2012 – 4:07 pm

Finding the best ETFs is an increasingly difficult task in a world where a new ETF seems to be born every 10 seconds.

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research | Also tagged Altria Group, BAC, Bank of America, C, Citigroup, Energy Select Sector SPDR, First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund, Health Care Select Sector SPDR, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan, JPM, Materials Select Sector SPDR, MO, TDIV, Technology Select Sector SPDR, Utilities Select Sector SPDR, XLB, XLE, xlk, XLU, XLV | Comments (0)

How To Find the Best ETFs

October 9, 2012 – 9:38 am

This article explains how I determine the best ETFs in the 25 reports I publish each quarter on the Best & Worst ETFs and Mutual Funds Series by Sector and Style. Here is my 4Q Best & Worst preview. I follow these steps:

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research, Mutual Fund Research, Stock Picks and Pans | Also tagged DTN, HDV, Health Care Select Sector SPDR, iShares Dow Jones U.S. Health Care Index Fund, iShares High Dividend Equity Fund, IYH, Johnson & Johnson, PowerShares Dynamic LargeCap Value, PWV, Vanguard Health Care ETF, Verizon, VHT, VZ, WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund, XLV | Comments (0)

Rating Breakdown: Best & Worst ETFs & Mutual Funds by Sector

October 8, 2012 – 2:52 pm

This report focuses on my top picks and pans for all sector funds. I will follow this summary with a detailed report on each sector.

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research, Mutual Fund Research | Also tagged FBTAX, Fidelity Advisor Series VII: Fidelity Advisor Biotechnology Fund, Health Care Select Sector SPDR, Johnson & Johnson, Low-cost funds dupe investors, portfolio management rating, Predictive Rating system, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., REGN, The Danger Within, Total Annual Costs rating, XLV | Comments (0)

Sector Rankings For ETFs & Mutual Funds

October 8, 2012 – 2:37 pm

At the outset of the fourth quarter of 2012, only a single sector earns an attractive rating. My sector ratings are based on the aggregation of my fund ratings for every ETF and mutual fund in each sector.

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research, Mutual Fund Research | Also tagged Consumer Staples sector, free ETF screener, free mutual fund screener, Health Care Select Sector SPDR, IRSAX, Ivy Funds: Ivy Real Estate Securities Fund, Johnson & Johnson, predictive ETF rating, predictive mutual fund rating, predictive ratings, Simon Property Group, SPG, Total Annual Cost, XLV | Comments (0)

Best & Worst Style ETFs & Mutual Funds

April 30, 2012 – 1:28 pm

The best ETFs and mutual funds have high-quality holdings and low costs. As detailed in “A cheap fund is not always a good fund”, there are few funds that have both good holdings and low costs. While there are lots of cheap funds, there are very few with high-quality holdings.

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research, Mutual Fund Research | Also tagged BAC, Bank of America Corp, BKPSX, GMO Trust: GMO Quality Fund, GQLOX, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, MSFT, roFunds: Banks UltraSector ProFund | Comments (0)

Best and Worst Funds: Health Care Sector

February 6, 2012 – 10:23 am

The Health Care sector ranks third out of the ten major sectors as detailed in our sector roadmap. It gets my Neutral rating.

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research, Mutual Fund Research, Stock Picks and Pans | Also tagged BBH, BioMarin Pharmaceuticals, BMRN, EXLSX, FBTAZ, FDBIX, Heath Care Select Sector SPDR, ICHCX, Johnson & Johnson, KRXAX, Market Vectors Biotech ETF, RXL, RYBOX, RYH, VGHAX, XLV | Comments (0)

Large-Cap Value Has 36 Aliases in ETF World

October 10, 2011 – 11:39 am

There are 36 “large cap value” ETFs. Per Figure 1, these 36 ETFs have drastically different stock holdings and, therefore, allocations. The lowest number of holdings is 30 while the highest is 1178.
How do investors pick the ETF that will deliver the best performance?

By David Trainer | Posted in ETF Research | Also tagged AT&T, bottoms-up ETF analysis, Columbia Concentrated Large Cap Value Strategy Fund, DHS, DIA, DLN, Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF, DTD, DTN, DVY, EPS, EQIN, EXT, Exxon MObil, EZY, FDL, FDV, First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund, First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund, First Trust Strategic Value Index Fund, First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund, FTA, FVD, GVT, HDV, iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund, iShares High Dividend Equity Fund, iShares Morningstar Large Value Index Fund, iShares NYSE 100 Index Fund, iShares Russell 1000 Value, iShares Russell Top 200 Value Index Fund, iShares S&P 500 Value Index Fund, IVE, IWD, IWX, JKF, Johnson & Johnson, LWPE, MGV, NY, PFM, PowerShares Dividend Achievers, PowerShares Dynamic LargeCap Value, PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 Portfolio, PowerShares RAFI Fundamental Pure Large Value Portfolio, predictive ETF ratings, PRF, PWV, PXLV, RPV, Russell Equity Income ETF, Russell Low P/E ETF, Rydex S&P 500 Pure Value ETF, SCHV, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value ETF, SDY, SPDR S&P 500 Value ETF, SPDR S&P Dividend ETF, SPYV, T, Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF, Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, Vanguard Mega Cap 300 Value, Vanguard Russell 1000 Value ETF, Vanguard S&P 500 Value ETF, Vanguard Value ETF, VIG, VONV, VOOV, VTV, VYM, WisdomTree Dividend ex-Financials Fund, WisdomTree Earnings 500 Fund, WisdomTree High-Yielding Equity Fund, WisdomTree LargeCap Dividend Fund, WisdomTree Low P/E Fund, WisdomTree Total Dividend Fund, WisdomTree Total Earnings Fund, XOM | Comments (1)

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