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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (189469)	8/26/2002 6:27:56 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (1) of 436258

1:30 PM EFT TALK: Exchange traded funds began trading a few weeks ago, offering investors an opportunity to trade a basket of bonds in the same way that they trade stocks. The funds seek to approximate the total rate of return on various maturities of Treasuries and corporate bonds. A few of the symbols for these new funds are SHY, IEF, TLT, and LQD. Go to ishares.com for more information. Here are a few aspects of the new funds. Expense ratios are expected to be about 0.15% compared to about 0.3% for bond mutual funds. But you must also pay a commision to your broker, thus raising the actual expense. EFTs will be liquid, but then again so are many parts of the bond market. For example, $350 billion of treasuries trade daily compared to $42 billion of stocks. * With an EFT you can buy and sell intra-day and take advantage of intra-day price swings. With mututal funds, yoou buy or sell at the closing price. * EFTs can be bought and sold in an ordinary brokerage account and they are marginable. * There are now about $100 billion in EFTs. bondtalk.com

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