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TheStreet Ratings
Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds
2010 Editions

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Pub. Date: Quarterly Editions in Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall
Softcover: 600 pages
Price: Four Quarterly Editions $499/Single Edition $249

June 1, 2010 Announcement: Ratings Guides to Banks & Insurers Once Again Powered by Weiss Ratings, Investment Ratings Guides will continue to be produced by TheStreet Ratings.
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Since the first exchange-traded fund launched in 1993, their popularity has continued to grow and they have gathered assets rapidly. TheStreet Ratings Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds provides independent, unbiased ratings and analyses of over 800 exchange-traded and closed-end funds, more than any other resource.

• Updated quarterly to ensure the user has access to the most current information available
  
  
• Useful overview on how open-end, exchange-traded and closed-end funds differ
  
  
• Index of Exchange-Traded and Other Closed-End Funds – with user-friendly letter-grade ratings, fund type, ticker symbol, price, 52-week highs and lows, returns over time, expense ratio, net asset value, premiums and discounts, average price to earnings, portfolio turnover ratio and more
  
  
• Detailed Analysis of Exchange-Traded & Closed-End Funds – with expanded data, charts and graphs including fund family, inception date, major rating factors, annualized total return, historical data and more
  
  
• Top & Bottom Exchange-Traded and Closed-End Funds
  
  
• Best & Worst Funds based on Performance
  
  
• Top-Rated Funds organized by Fund Type
  
  
• User-friendly Appendices: Performance Benchmarks, Exchange-Traded Funds Summary Data, Fund Type Descriptions
  
  
• Available in print and online database formats

Designed to meet the needs of aggressive as well as conservative investors, TheStreet Ratings Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds gives the user a better handle on an exchange-traded fund’s risk-adjusted performance, with balanced ratings based on both performance and risk factors. This important resource will be useful for investors researching this fast-growing market sector, it is a must for all investment collections and public libraries.

TheStreet Ratings Guides

TheStreet’s rating scale is extremely straightforward and easy to understand. There are no complicated number grades to interpret, no colored paper to decode, and no stars to count. Instead, each entry gets a simple, intuitive letter grade that immediately identifies the wheat from the chaff. This is one more reason why TheStreet Ratings is widely recognized as "America's Consumer Advocate for Financial Safety." The TheStreet Safety Ratings have been proven to be the most accurate available from any of the major rating agencies. Plus, unlike the other major rating agencies, TheStreet does not accept compensation from the companies it rates, and thus does not allow companies to influence the ratings they receive or to suppress the release of their ratings. In fact, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) validated TheStreet’s accuracy in its Insurance Ratings study, and that same superior rating methodology is used when deriving all other ratings as well.

Pub. Date: Quarterly Editions in Winter, Spring, Summer & Fall
Softcover: 600 pages
Price: Four Quarterly Editions $499/Single Edition $249

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