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1 ETF I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole

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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are compelling investments well worth considering for your portfolio. They're very much like mutual funds, often encompassing a big bunch of securities and charging an expense ratio (fee), yet they trade like stocks, allowing you to buy or sell any time the market is open, from your brokerage account.

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AGNC Investment: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

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And such REITs often employ leverage, usually using their loan portfolio as collateral, to enhance returns. In some ways, a mortgage REIT is more like a mutual fund than a company. And they are certainly nothing like a landlord. Frankly, most individual investors likely won't fall into the asset allocation category anyway.

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Annaly Capital Management's Total Return Won't Pay the Bills

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For starters, that's more like a mutual fund model than a typical REIT model, given that there are no operating assets involved. Add in the use of leverage, often backed by the mortgage securities in the portfolio, and all of the risks at play here can get amplified during rough times. Image source: Getty Images.

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How Do You Beat the S&P 500? Buy This ETF That Has Done It in 7 of the Last 10 Years

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By purchasing shares of an exchange-traded fund like the Vanguard 500 Index ETF or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF , you can gain instant access to a diversified group of 500 of the biggest U.S. In fact, most hedge funds and mutual funds underperform the S&P 500 over an extended period of time.

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Investors Are Pouring Billions Into These 2 Bitcoin ETFs and Leaving the Rest Behind

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Issuers can leverage certain operational expenses for an ETF, such as marketing spend. Additionally, bigger funds may be able to negotiate lower custodial fees for their Bitcoin holdings. (In If I were to invest in a Bitcoin ETF, it would either be the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund or the iShares Bitcoin Trust.

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5 Magnificent ETFs to Buy Hand Over Fist for the Second Half of 2023

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Exchange-traded funds offer a number of advantages, such as instant diversification or concentration with the click of a button. In other words, they're a leveraged play on spot price movements in physical gold. Further, gold companies can adjust their capital expenditures or growth strategies to alter their key performance metrics.

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Think Hedge Funds Are Super Secret? They're Often Not -- and You Can Invest in Many of the Same Stocks.

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What are hedge funds? A hedge fund has a lot in common with a standard actively managed mutual fund. Like a typical mutual fund , it pools the money of investors, and its managers decide how to invest that money. Hedge funds tend to charge significantly higher fees than mutual funds.