Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 2 – 8, 2009) “Down, down, deeper and down”. So goes the chorus of a Status Quo song, but it is eerily starting to sound like the stock markets’ anthem. Another week and another plunge of equities on fears about the int...

Trend: Leveraged and inverse ETFs do not perform as expected due to tax distributions and tracking error.  Jim Cramer on CNBC has been ranting about the problems effects of the double short financial ETF SKF. Simon Maierhofer at ETF Guide describes the illogical returns of leveraged and inverse ETF...