indexuniverse.com - 5/4/2009
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Grail launches first qualitative actively managed ETF using three well-known subadvisers.
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Abnormal Returns —
... (VIX and More)
The state of investor sentiment. (Trader’s Narrative, Technical Take)
Why fighting the stock market rally hasn’t paid off. (Howard Lindzon)
Not that we need it, but an actively traded ETF, Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF (GVT), launches. (Bull Bear Trader, IndexUniverse.com)
Not everything that came out of the ...
Grail Advisors Launches First Qualitative Active ETF
ETF Trends —
... . The Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value (GVT) will be managed by three veteran mutual fund and institutional subadvisors, reports Matt Hougan at Index Universe . The ETF’s goal is to outperform the Russell 1000 Index, but it won’t track any specific benchmark when selecting its names. While there are other ETFs that are billed as actively managed, it has meant that the stocks within those funds aren’t bought just because they mirror an index. In those ETFs, run by InvescoPowerShares , stocks are chosen through a quantitative process and have limits on how often they ...
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