Popular Specialty Funds for 2010

March 8th, 2010 at 2:00 pm Posted by 
Dear Students

As part of The Dean’s commitment to teach the CollegeStock Community about everything stock market related, The Dean will be teaching all of his students about mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other types of stock market investments.

Here are some of the most popular specialty funds for 2010 and, based on their gains last year, The Dean’s sure the student body knows why:

$DBB
PowerShares DB Base Metals (NYSE: DBB)
72.4% return in 2009
$500 million in assets

$SLV
iShares Silver Trust (NYSE: SLV)
63.7% return in 2009
$5 billion in assets

$MOO
Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF (NYSE: MOO)
47.7% return in 2009
$1.6 billion in assets

$XLB
Materials Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLB)
46.4% return in 2009
$1.8 billion in assets

$XLK
Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: SLK)
45.3% return in 2009
$3.9 billion in assets

Happy Trading, The Dean



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