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Article: ETF investment strategies
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- New Straits Times
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- June 29, 2009
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New Straits Times
06-29-2009
ETF investment strategies
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Business Times
Column: Wise investing
Type: News
AN INCREASING number of investors are using exchange traded funds (ETFs) to construct or to fill up gaps in an investment portfolio. Although relatively new in the local market, the first ETF on Bursa Malaysia was listed in 2005; many investors appreciated the relatively straightforward structure of an ETF and understood what they were acquiring.
ETFs are cheaper to trade, as liquid as stocks but with diversification advantages of an index unit trust fund investors, with an outlook, can form their expectations of return as components held within the ETF are ...