Articles by Roger Nusbaum
What Should Come Next In ETFs? Part Deux
1/25/2011, 9:07 am from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, ETFs
Well I was not expecting a followup to yesterday's post, well not today anyway, but it is appropriate. Perhaps coincidentally to yesterday's post or perhaps not I had a conversation with a... Read >>
What Should Come Next In ETFs?
1/24/2011, 6:18 pm from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, ETFs
In the last few days there have been a couple of posts touching on the idea of what direction the ETF industry might go in; one from Mebane Faber revisiting a wish list from four years ago... Read >>
Learning From Tunisia
1/20/2011, 10:19 am from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, International, ETFs
Charles Kirk kicked off yesterday's daily email with a quote from Seth Klarman from the Baupost Group as follows; "The best investors in the world do not target returns; they focus... Read >>
Wednesday Twofer
1/19/2011, 10:03 am from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, Investing Ideas
Yesterday at the gym I saw a guy on the treadmill with a Walkman-like device that looked older than the one pictured to the left. He had cassettes and everything to pop into that... Read >>
Frontier Markets
1/18/2011, 5:54 pm from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, International
I meant to get to this before but a while back Dow Jones redid their country classification such that they now recognize countries as being frontier (apparently this is new for them). This is... Read >>
The Big Picture For The Week of January 16, 2011
1/15/2011, 8:49 am from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, Investing Ideas
The US market is off to a strange start in 2011 continuing a nice run that started months ago. At the same time the economic data seems to point more toward malaise in terms of jobless claims,... Read >>
Gooooood Morning...Laos?
1/13/2011, 9:52 am from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, International, ETFs
The other day the Wall Street Journal had a writeup on the new stock exchange in Laos. Laos as an investment destination? While I'm sure it will be a while before Laos Telecom lists and ADR on... Read >>
I'm The Only One Who Thinks This, But Still
1/12/2011, 12:12 pm from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, ETFs
The other day IndexUniverse noted that the PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1000 Portfolio (PRF) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The article also noted that the fund had doubled the return of the ... Read >>
Sunday Morning Coffee
1/9/2011, 1:14 pm from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, Investing Ideas
A few weeks ago I was interviewed for an article on CNBC.com about investing in farmland . To read that article but none of my blog posts I came across as a cockeyed optimist without a care in... Read >>
Single Stock VIXs?
1/7/2011, 9:57 am from Roger Nusbaum in Investing, Stocks, Options
Bill Luby from the Vix And More blog stumbled across what I think can be very useful if it catches on. The Chicago Board Option Exchange will start calculating a VIX like index for five... Read >>