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To: ggersh who wrote (22868)9/22/2009 6:59:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71456
 
Slightly OT,

as we had this discussion about ETFs earlier (see your remark: Message 25785284 and Message 25785284 , or earlier Message 25782396 ) now various tort lawyers smell the beef and are to my surprise, some are pretty concise. They also discovered the "megaphone" effect (5):

finance.yahoo.com

Defendants failed to disclose the following risks in the Company's Registration Statement:

(1) inverse correlation between the FAZ Fund and the RFSI over time would only happen in the rarest of circumstances, and inadvertently, if at all;

(2) the extent to which performance of the FAZ Fund would inevitably diverge from the performance of the RFSI -- i.e., the probability, if not certainty, of spectacular tracking error;

(3) the severe consequences of high market volatility on the FAZ Fund's investment objectives and performance;

(4) the severe consequences of inherent path dependency in periods of high market volatility on the FAZ Fund's performance;

(5) the role the FAZ Fund plays in increasing market volatility, particularly in the last hour of trading;

(6) the consequences of the FAZ Fund's daily hedge adjustment always going in the same direction as the movement of the underlying index, notwithstanding that it is an inverse leveraged ETF;

(7) the FAZ Fund causes dislocations in the stock market; and

(8) the FAZ Fund offers a seemingly straightforward way to obtain desired exposure, but such exposure is not attainable through the FAZ Fund.