ETFs: Strategies, Taxes, and Risk Management

ETFs offer impressive flexibility as an investment vehicle. So although simply buying and holding an ETF is a viable strategy, ETFs can also be shorted, bundled, hedged, and optioned.

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Types of ETFs

ETF sponsors, eager to meet investor demand for more ways to diversify their portfolios, continue to expand the universe of funds to encompass nearly all asset classes and investment strategies. Remember though that all ETFs, whatever their underlying investments, are themselves equity assets. You own shares in an ETF, even when the assets the ETF holds are bonds or gold bars.

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