This article evaluates the performance and diversification benefits of international ETFs for U.S. investors during and after the recent financial crisis. Our results show that U.S. ETFs outperformed all categories of international ETFs for the period of our study (January 2008-June 2013); they...

This study investigates the performance of Dividend Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) during both bull and bear markets. We compare their performance to a proxy for the U.S. market as measured by the S&P 500 ETF (IVV). Using data from Morningstar Direct we construct equally weighted portfolios of...

Hedged ETFs provide individual investors with the opportunity to invest in ETFs that follow strategies similar to those of hedge funds and seek returns uncorrelated with the market. In this paper I analyze the performance for 6 different categories of 49 Hedged ETFs and 539 Hedged Mutual Funds...