Coupla Notes About 4 New Mutual Fund, ETF Websites

Let’s take a quick spin around four new mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF)-sponsored Websites and/or Web presences that surfaced in October.

Janus' Proceed With Caution

Janus is promoting a new domain—proceedwithcaution.com that re-directs to its brand domain. This is a shallow, siloed presence with the top-level pages linking to PDFs for advisors to use when working with clients. It’s a targeted campaign with three clear steps:

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What I Don’t Know (A Partial List)

The risk that I or any blogger runs is that we come across as a know-it-all. But, it’s just natural that we veer toward issues where we can add value. Today and probably for today only, I'm sharing a few items from my random running list of what I just don’t know.

What is Yahoo! Finance's Mojo?

Since Yahoo! is in the news this week, let’s start with it. I don’t know why or how Yahoo! Finance continues to trounce all finance sites, including its monster competitor in search, Google.

The screenshot below of the top five finance sites is from Compete. Note that Google Finance (weighing in with fewer than 2 million visitors in March, according to Comscore) isn’t even on the list.

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These 3 Website Tools Advance The Understanding Of ETFs

Little more than one month after our post about highlights on mutual fund and ETF Web sites (see 5 Random Highlights of Mutual Fund, ETF Sites)  we’re back with another installment, this time all about ETFs.

Exchange-traded funds offer the advantage of lower expenses. That’s a blanket statement that’s made when comparing mutual funds to ETFs. But, how does the cost of using ETFs compare to the cost of using no-load funds? This Rydex Investments trading expenses calculator considers all the variables and gets into the particulars.

Understanding the volatility of an investment is always important, but you might say that it’s critical for an investor considering leveraged index funds. To that end, Direxion Funds offers a volatility tool for 10-, 30-, 90- and 180-day rolling periods. To fully appreciate this, you have to see the graphic reset as the periods change. Note that the user can customize this list by selecting a subset of funds.

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