The ETF Handbook: How to Value and Trade Exchange Traded Funds

The Updated Edition of the ETF Guide Preferred by Professionals Around the World

The ETF Handbook, Second Edition is the comprehensive guide to using exchange–traded funds that institutional investors and advisors turn to for effectively monitoring, analyzing, and executing ETFs all over the world including the nitty gritty details you can′t instantly access anywhere else.

ETFs offer incredible flexibility and can be used in many valuable ways, but to do so requires a sophisticated skillset, even among professional money managers and traders. In this extensively revised and updated edition, pioneering expert David Abner reveals how ETFs work, where they fit into a portfolio, who is using them, and how you can use them to capture more profits. In this new edition he shares:

The most up–to–date coverage on how the ETF business has grown from a niche to mainstream Privileged insight into ETF performance and issuers around the world All the critical changes affecting professionals using ETFs in the U.S.

The ETF Handbook, Second Edition gives you everything you need to develop professional capital as an ETF expert.

Introduction

Chapter 1: How Did We End Up Here?

Chapter 2: Steps for Developing an ETF

Chapter 3: Giving an ETF Life in the Markets

Chapter 4: Trading Volumes and ETF Liquidity

Chapter 5: Volume Liquidity Understanding ETF Implied Liquidity

Chapter 6: Execution

Chapter 7: Market Participants and Their Trading Strategies

Chapter 8: Market Structure and ETFs Protecting your Portfolio from Flash Crashes

Chapter 9: ETFs with Domestic Holdings

Chapter 10: ETFs with International Constituents

Chapter 11: Fixed–Income and Currency ETFs

Chapter 12: Leveraged, Inverse, and Commodity Products

Chapter 13: Structure of an ETF

Appendix

Index

DAVID J. ABNER currently leads the European business for WisdomTree Asset Management, an ETF issuer based in New York. During his career, he has built and managed ETF sales and trading businesses at both BNP Paribas and Bear Stearns. He is the author of The Visual Guide to ETFs and The ETF Handbook, both by Wiley.