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The Best of Both Worlds
While the active vs. passive investment debate is ongoing, actively managed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are gaining momentum in 2010 as investors discover more about the advantages and benefits they offer. Investment flexibility, cost efficiency and professional money management continue to be cited as the most popular features of this relatively new investment option.
One company at the forefront of this trend is Fund.com (OTCBB:FNDM), which, through a subsidiary, launched an actively managed ETF product with NY Times best selling author Harry Dent last fall. Globe Newswire reported in September 2009, the ETF traded over one million shares in the first four days of its launch, making it the largest and fastest growing actively managed ETF in existence. This is the first product of Advisor Shares Investments, LLC, a majority-owned subsidiary of Fund.com.
Taking a look Fund.com’s Advisors Shares ETF platform today, new and different options are allowing asset managers and major banks to launch private label ETFs. This unique actively managed ETF distribution platform is reportedly designed for optimum efficiency without the high-priced retail marketing costs and delays.
Now with more than a billion dollars in assets under management, Fund.com appears to be gaining scale and momentum. Actively managed Exchange Traded Funds will undoubtedly continue to evolve and change as they become more widely accepted by investors and financial product producers. And the future looks bright. It will be interesting to watch Fund.com and its partners as the innovative firm reveals the latest exciting developments in the actively managed ETF industry.
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A Golden Opportunity
Gold prices are experiencing the longest consecutive rally since 1979. For the sixth straight quarter gold prices have risen, as investor seek alternatives to the dollar and other currencies. Economic indicators point to continued weakness in the dollar which is bullish for gold and commodities in general.
Supatcha Resources (OTCBB: SAEI)
Supatcha Resources, Inc. an exploration stage company, intends to acquire, explore, and develop natural resource properties. It owns a 100% interest in the Bonanza Property comprising 9 units mineral claim with 222.8 acres located in the Greenwood Mining Division of British Columbia, Canada. The company was founded in 2007.
Website: www.supatcharesources.com
Fund.com Acquires Weston Capital Management
Fund.com Expands its Operations to Include Originating, Developing and Distributing Hedge Funds and Actively Managed ETFs
NEW YORK, March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Fund.com, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board:FNDM) announced here today that effective as of March 29, 2010, it has acquired Weston Capital Management, LLC, an originator and distributor of hedge funds.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL., Weston Capital earns fees on assets exceeding $1.0 billion under management. It has three lines of business: it originates and markets fund of funds; it originates and markets single-manager hedge funds; and it raises capital to seed new hedge funds. In 2010, Weston Capital and Harcourt AG formed a strategic alliance for investment manager identification and fund seeding. Harcourt, a $4.5 billion alternative investments manager that is majority owned by Vontobel Group, the $70 billion Swiss banking group, is a leading global advisor of alternative investments for institutional investors.
Tootie Pie Company (OTCBB: TOOT)
Tootie Pie Company bakes and sells high-quality, handmade pies through three basic sales channels: retail, corporate and wholesale. The retail segment serves individual consumers through in-store sales, orders via telephone and internet on the Company’s website. The corporate segment serves businesses that purchase pies as a way to promote their company through client and employee appreciation programs. The wholesale segment is made up of national and regional broad line grocery and food-service distributors who purchase pies and then resell them through their respective sales distribution channels.
Fund.com Inc. (OTCBB: FNDM)
Fund.com Inc. is an online content provider and generation platform for the financial services community, including investment funds and the savings and retirement markets. The Company has two wholly owned subsidiaries: Fund.com Technologies Inc. and Fund.com Managed Products Inc. Fund.com Managed Products Inc. has a wholly owned subsidiary, Fund.com Capital Inc. It also has a 60% interest in AdvisorShares Investments LLC. On January 15, 2008, the Company merged with Eastern Services Holdings, Inc. In November 2009, the Company purchased an equity interest in Vensure Employer Services, Inc., and also acquired Whyte Lyon Socratic, Inc.
SkyPeople Fruit Juice, Inc. (NYSE Amex: SPU)
SkyPeople Fruit Juice, Inc. is a holding company of Shaanxi Tianren. Shaanxi Tianren is a company organized according to the laws of the People’s Republic of China. Shaanxi Tianren’s main products are concentrated apple, kiwifruit, pear and other fruit juices for domestic and international consumers. Its brand, HEDETANG(R), is positioned as a high quality, healthy and nutritious juice concentrate and clear juice product used both as an ingredient component in other products and an end-use juice concentrate product. Shaanxi Tianren utilizes the largest kiwifruit plantation in China and is a leading producer of concentrated kiwifruit juice in Asia.
Zenergy International, Inc. (OTCPK: ZENG)
Zenergy International, Inc. is a global biofuel solutions provider which works to deliver biofuels at a competitive price, focusing on sustainable resources, safe practices, and compliance with all environmental laws. The Company strives to minimize overall environmental impact. Zenergy is engaged in the development and acquisition of biofuel sites, including constructing, acquiring existing facilities and operating fuel-grade biodiesel and ethanol plants.
Vega Promotional Systems, Inc. (OTCPK: VGPR)
Vega is currently building manufacturing facilities that will produce biofuel products to sell worldwide. The company manufactures energy efficient pellet fuel made from organic waste bi-products. It offers bio-mass and bio-diesel products for power generation units.
Kender Solar (OTCPK: KNDR)
Kender Energy Inc. is a development phase company active in the field of solar energy. Its present prototypes of solar panels are being developed into a full-scale solar energy production system. The particularity of the Kender solar panel system and technology is to allow, via a closed circuit of gas (usually helium), to create a heat exchange with the sunlight and the air from the environment. The exchange generates the spinning of the helium gas in the closed circuit, propelling a turbine, which produces electricity in a 100% clean and renewable process. The system’s main advantages are that it is efficient, cheap in production, and modular. The company is based near Geneva, Switzerland.