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Telecom ETF | IYZ, VOX, PRFQ, PTE, IXP, DGG

Interested in investing in telecommunications with ETFs? Since hitting 52 week lows back in March, telecom companies and telecom ETFs are making a come back as you can see in the chart below.

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PowerShares Flagship ETF Delivers Alpha at 5-Year Mark

Invesco PowerShares Dynamic Market Portfolio (AMEX: PWC) recently celebrated its five-year anniversary. Since its inception through May 1, 2008, PWC outpaced the S&P 500 Index by a cumulative 21.76% and the Lipper Multi-Cap Core Mutual Fund Average by a cumulative 14.25%, without distributing a capital gain to its shareholders.

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ETF Investing in Brazil

A few weeks back, we presented the investment case for Brazil in our post The Case for a Brazil ETF. Despite signs of slowing economies in other parts of the world, Brazil continues to deliver good news.

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First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas ETF Posts Strong First Year Results

Revere Data marked the one-year anniversary of the top-performing First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas ETF (NYSE:FCG). FCG tracks exchange-listed companies that derive a majority of their revenues from the exploration and production of natural gas as defined by Revere’s patented classification system and indexes.

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Preferred Stock ETFs – High Dividends, Low Taxes?

Arden Dale covers preferred stocks in today’s WSJ personal finance section, noting that the combination of high yields and low taxes makes them a nice complement to municipal bonds. Investors can use ETFs as a low cost, diversified way to take advantage of the yields that preferred stocks offer which currently hover around 7%. We first introduced preferred stock ETFs in an earlier post.

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ETF Trends Fund Launches

Bell Investment Advisors launched the Bell Worldwide Trends Fund (TRNDX), a no-load mutual fund that will invest primarily in ETFs. The fund’s managers will use Bell’s proprietary Active Portfolio Enhancement® methodology to select ETFs to invest in the strongest global investment trends.