Portfolio Building With ETF Filings
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Roger Nusbaum submits:
A thought occurred to me the other day as I was looking at the filings page on the IndexUniverse weekly ETF Watch. It might be interesting to create a portfolio from some of the funds that are in registration. To be clear, these funds do no exist (yet) and many of the filings are so old that it is quite clear to me that, assuming they are still active filings, some of the funds will never list, but I’d very probably be a buyer of the WisdomTree Chilean Peso ETF if it ever listed. For purposes of this post I won’t speculate on the likelihood that any filing will become a fund.
The approach will be to build at the sector level as best as I can which could be difficult for some funds where index composition is not available somewhere unless it is otherwise obvious by the name of the fund.
