Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund: A Do-It-Yourself ETF Strategy for Private Wealth Management (Wiley Finance)

Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today's hedge funds, but most feel like they're on the outside looking in, due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. iCreate Your Own ETF Hedge Fund/i allows you to break down these barriers and effectively operate within this environment. By focusing on the essential approaches of global macro long/short and aggressive growth, this book will help you create a fund that can take advantage of both bullish and bearish conditions across the globe.;""Praise""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Introduction""; ""PART One -- Contemporary Investment Conditions""; ""CHAPTER 1 -- Hobsonâ€TMs Choice""; ""CURRENT SITUATION: THE CAPTIVE CLIENT""; ""HOW THE INVESTMENT BUSINESS CHANGED""; ""THE AGE OF THE DIY INVESTOR""; ""IF YOU CANâ€TMT BEAT â€2EM, JOIN â€2EM""; ""BAD APPLES AND UNETHICAL PRACTICES""; ""HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENT""; ""THE REGULATORS CRACKDOWN""; ""THE MOTHER OF ALL MUTUAL FUND SCANDALS""; ""BUT WAIT, THEREâ€TMS MORE POTENTIAL SCANDAL AHEAD"" ""Praise"" ""Title Page"" ""Copyright Page"" ""Dedication"" ""Acknowledgments"" ""About the Author"" ""Introduction"" ""PART One -- Contemporary Investment Conditions"" ""CHAPTER 1 -- Hobsonâ€TMs Choice"" ""CURRENT SITUATION: THE CAPTIVE CLIENT"" ""HOW THE INVESTMENT BUSINESS CHANGED"" ""THE AGE OF THE DIY INVESTOR"" ""IF YOU CANâ€TMT BEAT â€2EM, JOIN â€2EM"" ""BAD APPLES AND UNETHICAL PRACTICES"" ""HIGH PRESSURE ENVIRONMENT"" ""THE REGULATORS CRACKDOWN"" ""THE MOTHER OF ALL MUTUAL FUND SCANDALS"" ""BUT WAIT, THEREâ€TMS MORE POTENTIAL SCANDAL AHEAD"" ""CLIENT RUMBLINGS AND GRUMBLINGS""""I STILL WANT SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT"" ""REPORTS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED"" ""FUTURE AREA OF GROWTH: UNIFIED ACCOUNTS"" ""THE FUTURE FOR FINANCIAL ADVISORS NEVER BRIGHTERâ€"MAYBE"" ""TWO BODY BLOWS TO WALL STREET FEES"" ""CONCLUSION"" ""CHAPTER 2 -- ETFsâ€"The New Investment of Choice"" ""DIY INVESTORS TAKE CHARGE"" ""WHAT TOOK ETFs SO LONG TO CATCH ON?"" ""INDEXING VERSUS ACTIVE MANAGEMENT"" ""PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR FINANCIAL PLANNERS"" ""ETFs AND INDEXING"" ""THE ETF TSUNAMI"" ""NEW QUANTITATIVE INDEXES"" ""INTERNATIONAL ETFs""""INVERSE ETFs"" ""ULTRA, LEVERAGED SHORT, OR LONG ETFs"" ""COMMODITY AND CURRENCY ETFs"" ""ACTIVELY MANAGED ETFs?"" ""WITH GROWTH COME OTHER PROBLEMS"" ""A DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY INDEED!"" ""CHAPTER 3 -- The Rise of Hedge Funds"" ""WHAT WE REALLY MEAN BY HEDGE FUND"" ""HOT NEW SECTOR: PRIVATE EQUITY"" ""GROWTH OF HEDGE FUNDS"" ""WHO INVESTS IN THESE COMPLEX STRATEGIES?"" ""WHY INVEST IN HEDGE FUNDS ANYWAY?"" ""BUT CAN RETAIL INVESTORS PARTICIPATE?"" ""HEDGE FUND DISASTERS"" ""TO REGULATE OR NOT"" ""HEDGE FUNDS ARE HERE TO STAY"" ""CHAPTER 4 -- A Convergence Story""""MUTUAL FUNDS ADOPTING SOME HEDGE FUND STRATEGIES"" ""FUTURES INVESTMENT STRATEGIES IN HEDGE FUNDS"" ""RYDEX INVESTMENTS LEADS A BIG CHANGE"" ""POWERSHARES ACTIVELY TRADED ETF"" ""POWERSHARES PRIVATE EQUITY ETF"" ""COMMODITY ETFs DIRECT"" ""CURRENCY ETFs DIRECT"" ""INVERSE ETFs DIRECT"" ""NEW MARGIN RULES"" ""THE ZERO COMMISSION"" ""CONVERGENCE WELL UNDERWAY"" ""CHAPTER 5 -- The Bullish Bias Gets a Makeover"" ""OTHER CONTRIBUTING FORCES"" ""COMMISSIONS OUT, FEES IN"" ""RECURRING FEES"" ""THE GREENSPAN AND BERNANKE PUT"" "Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today's hedge funds, but most feel like they're on the outside looking in - due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund will allow you to break down these barriers and effectively operate within this environment by: demystifying hedge funds and explaining why they're so popular; detailing the number and type of current, new, and proposed ETFs, which can enhance your investment return; outlining real portfolio construction techniques, which are easy to understand and implement; and much more."--BOOK JACKET

Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today's hedge funds, but most feel like they're on the outside looking in, due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund allows you to break down these barriers and effectively operate within this environment. By focusing on the essential approaches of global macro long/short and aggressive growth, this book will help you create a fund that can take advantage of both bullish and bearish conditions across the globe.

Many investors are intrigued by the profit potential of today s hedge funds, but most feel like they re on the outside looking in, due to the high investment requirements and complexity of these vehicles. "Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund" allows you to break down these barriers and effectively operate within this environment. By focusing on the essential approaches of global macro long/short and aggressive growth, this book will help you create a fund that can take advantage of both bullish and bearish conditions across the globe." Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund. "As a psychologist, I find this book and the ETF Digest web site to do an excellent job of helping us separate our emotional reactions to the market from our more cognitive ones. As humans, we always emotionally wa