31.01.2011 - Commodities investors favor mutual funds over ETFs
From WSJ: For all the talk about the runaway success of exchange-traded funds, there is at least one sector where traditional mutual funds maintain their supremacy: commodities. Over the past year, commodity mutual funds have proportionally seen roughly five times the net inflows that commodities ETFs have seen. By comparison, over the same period, stock mutual funds saw about three times the net inflows of stock ETFs on a proportional basis. There is one notable exception: the precious-metals subsector, where ETF flows significantly outstrip those of mutual funds...........................................Full Article: Source
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