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		<title>ETF Spotlight: Equal-Weight S&amp;P 500</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/12/etf-spotlight-equal-weight-sp-500/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been made of the &#8220;lost decade&#8221; in stocks with the S&#38;P 500 suffering a pair of major sell-offs in the dot-com bubble bursting in 2008 followed by the more recent credit meltdown. However, an exchange traded fund that equal-weights the S&#38;P 500 has held up much better than the market-cap index that many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy ETFs: Equal Weight or Market Cap?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/11/energy-etfs-equal-weight-or-market-cap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil prices fell back below $100 a barrel in Thursday&#8217;s risk-off market action, dragging down exchange traded funds that invest in energy stocks.
These sector ETFs have benefited from the recent spike in oil prices, but performance among the funds can vary due to differences in the various tracking indexes.
In a research note, Isabelle Sender, S&#38;P [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ETF Chart of the Day: S&amp;P 500 Equal Weight</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/10/etf-chart-of-the-day-sp-500-equal-weight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Weisbruch, Street One Financial</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An exchange traded fund that has seen abnormal action this week is Rydex S&#38;P 500 Equal Weight (NYSEArca: RSP). More than 10 million shares have traded in the past three sessions (with average daily volume in the ETF totaling 1.63 million shares) and the fund has taken in nearly $300 million in new assets, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Considered The Equal-Weight ETF Style?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/03/have-you-considered-the-equal-weight-etf-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Index exchange traded funds (ETFs) hold specific weightings of underlying securities based on market capitalization. Market cap weighting has been the cornerstone of index construction &#8211; look at the Dow Jones Industrials and the S&#38;P 500 Index.  Today investors are warming up to other forms of index construction, like equal-weight indexing the the  ETFs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Consumer ETFs for Renewed Confidence</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/02/4-consumer-etfs-renewed-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re down sharply today, but retail exchange traded funds (ETFs) could get a shot in the arm from the latest consumer confidence numbers.
Consumers are feeling the most confident about the U.S. economy than they have in three years, when the recession was at full bore.
It&#8217;s encouraging that American shopper feel that way, considering that oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New ETF Equal Weights the World</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2011/01/new-etf-equal-weights-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rydex has added another equal weight exchange traded fund (ETF) to its increasingly formidable lineup of funds that have the strategy.
The Rydex MSCI All Country World Equal Weight ETF (NYSEArca: EWAC) tracks the equal-weighted MSCI All County World Index, which tracks more than 2,400 stocks from 24 developed and 21 emerging market countries, reports Olivier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Regional Bank ETFs Betting on M&amp;A Pickup</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/12/7-regional-bank-etfs-betting-ma-pickup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greater mergers and acquisitions activity in the financial sector has been delivering a nice bump for regional banking exchange traded funds (ETFs).
The Keefe, Bruyette &#38; Woods Regional Bank Index rose 3% this month on regional banking M&#38;A activity, reports Laurie Kulikowski for TheStreet. Morgan Keegan analysts remarked that &#8220;bank M&#38;A is picking up steam&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rydex Launches 6 Equal-Weight ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/12/rydex-launches-6-equal-weight-etfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rydex&#124;SGI today unveiled six new additions to its lineup of equal-weight exchange traded funds (ETFs).
The ETFs have been getting a lot of great coverage out there today from sites like ETF Daily News, Index Universe and 24/7 Wall Street.
The new ETFs are:

Rydex Russell 1000 Equal Weight ETF (EWRI)
Rydex Russell 2000 Equal Weight ETF (EWRS)
Rydex Russell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rydex&#124;SGI Offers More Options With Equal Weight ETFs</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/11/rydexsgi-offers-more-options-equal-weight-etfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rydex&#124;SGI, the first company to provide equal-weight exchange traded funds (ETFs), will soon launch six new equal-weight ETFs to help provide core allocations for investor portfolios.
Equal weight strategies can provide a more consistent  long-term risk adjusted performance as compared to cap-weighted strategies. With a reduced concentration in the largest stocks, equal weight ETFs can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Equal Weight ETFs Are Beating the Market</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/09/why-equal-weight-etfs-are-beating-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as not all exchange traded funds (ETFs) are created alike, not all indexes are cut from the same cloth. The differences between indexing methods can have a real impact on your returns, so let&#8217;s study up.
Over the past year, ETFs using equal- and revenue-weighted methods actually outperformed market cap-weighted funds, which is the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;P 500 ETFs: The Most American of All?</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/07/sp-500-etfs-most-american-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.etftrends.com/2010/07/sp-500-etfs-most-american-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P 500 is the market’s barometer for the top 500 U.S.-listed stocks trading. For the Fourth of July, why not take a moment to think about investing in your country&#8217;s well-being and capitalistic pride? That is, when the trend returns.
The  S&#38;P 500 index is a good way to measure the health of the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Equal Weight ETF Gives Exposure While Managing Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2009/07/new-equal-weight-etf-gives-exposure-while-managing-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALPS, an asset manager turned exchange traded fund (ETF) provider, has just launched its second ETF. The new fund employs an equal weighting strategy with the sectors that make up the S&#38;P 500. 
The ALPS Equal Sector Weight ETF (EQL) is a fund of funds made up of the nine sectors in the S&#38;P 500, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Equal-Weight ETFs Can Enhance Your Portfolio Now</title>
		<link>http://www.etftrends.com/2009/06/how-equal-weight-etfs-can-enhance-your-portfolio-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Lydon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Many investors have entrusted the plain vanilla index fund as a steady and reliable investment strategy, but there are other takes on indexing can add some spice to many portfolios and add a certain appeal to some exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Equal weighting is an indexing strategy that gives every holding or company in the [...]]]></description>
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