The Long And The Short Of ETF Investing

While ETFs have been praised for their ability to offer immediate diversification and low cost exposure to a wide variety of asset classes, more and more investors are also realizing that ETFs may also allow them to tap into relatively complex investment strategies that historically would have required either significant time and analysis or a pricey management fee. The rise in popularity of ETFs has spurred a round of innovation in the world of indexing, with countless firms coming up with benchmarks designed to use objective quantitative analysis to dictate strategies that have historically been performed by teams of analysts and relied manager input and subjective decisions. As correlations between international markets have steadily increased over the years, identifying non-correlated assets has become both increasingly important and difficult. Against this backdrop, long/short investment strategies may be an intriguing opportunity, as they maintain the potential to generate positive returns even in the [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Stories: Next Frontier Of ETF Investing: Long/Short Trades ProShares Planning Long/Short ETF PIMCO Launches Actively-Managed Short Maturity ETF