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Given some of the ETFs that have been discontinued, and others with low assets, it will take some innovative and useful new ETF products to prosper. Some proposed ETF ideas of my own, that I am surprised have not made it to the market, include products similar to the idea behind Vanguard's Extended Market Index ETF (VXF), but applied globally to international ETFs.

Money Magazine has an undercover financial planner. They call him the "Mole." And the Mole dispenses generic investment advice through popular publications and well-traveled web sites (e.g., CNN.com).

Money Magazine has an undercover financial planner. They call him the "Mole." And the Mole dispenses generic investment advice through popular publications and well-traveled web sites (e.g., CNN.com). I haven't figured out why the individual needs to go "underground." Is it a marketing gimmick? Is it an effort to disassociate...

Money Magazine has an undercover financial planner. They call him the "Mole." And the Mole dispenses generic investment advice through popular publications and well-traveled web sites (e.g., CNN.com). I haven't figured out why the individual needs to go "underground." Is it a marketing gimmick? Is it an effort to disassociate...

By Matthew Hougan I want to add a few additional thoughts to our recent posts about emerging market ETFs.

By Jim Wiandt When Matt Hougan told me what he was blogging about, I told him to stop picking on the runt kid.

By Dan Serra Vanguard has taken out its wrench and tinkered with its Total International Stock Index Fund [VGTSX] by throwing out the fund-of-funds concept and investing in individual stocks.

Mohamed El-Erian, who managed Harvard University's investments and is now at PIMCO, has been in the news recently recommending long term investors to underweight U.S. securities. He suggests the following asset allocation: US Stocks 15% Developed ex-US stocks 15% Emerging Stocks 12% US Bonds 5%

Mohamed El-Erian, who managed Harvard University's investments and is now at PIMCO, has been in the news recently recommending long term investors to underweight US securities. He suggests the following asset allocation: US Stocks 15% Developed ex-US stocks 15% Emerging Stocks 12% US Bonds 5%

Not all emerging market exchange traded funds (ETFs) are alike. Several can look at the same region, yet deliver some different results. Last week, we covered two of them that are based on market-cap weightings. But it’s fundamentally weighted funds that are outperforming.