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Seems like everybody is getting on the Frontier Market bandwagon.  Back on July 17th Wisdom Tree launched the Middle East ETF (GULF). 
Index Description:

The WisdomTree Middle East Dividend Index is a fundamentally weighted index that measures the performance of companies in the Middle East region that pay regular cash dividends on shares of their common stock [...]

Good interview on Barron’s with David Winter

After 18 years at Franklin Mutual Advisers, where you had become chief executive, chief investment officer and president, you left to start Wintergreen. Why didn’t you start a hedge fund instead, where you could earn an annual management fee of at least 1%, and keep 20% or more of [...]

There has been a lot going on in the international equity space lately. 
Harbor International was named International Manager of the Year by Morningstar.  The Hakan Castegren lead fund has had more than just a good year.  Check out the long term track record of this fund and you will see how good they have done.
Dodge [...]

Joshua Cyr has done some analysis on spam investment e-mails.  It’s turned out pretty much like you would have thought it would.  Invest in a known scam…lose most of your money…  spamstocktracker.com
What it is / How it began.
On May 5th, 2005 (05/05/05 spooky!) I set out to determine just how much money I could lose [...]

Both Barclays (iShares) and PowerShares launched micro-cap ETF’s in the last week. While most thought that PowerShares would be first to market with their ETF, it was instead iShares launching their issue on Tuesday (August 16th), beating their competitor to market by 2 days.
The two issues are very different in their construction. [...]

What do I like?  I get this question from people all the time.  Mostly the question is phrased as “what stock should I buy?�  Now if you have been to my site before you will know that it’s not a “stock picking� site.  It is a site about building and running diversified portfolios, not the [...]

I am big believer that international equity has a place in most portfolios.  So I was glad to see that iShares has expanded their line up of international ETF’s with both a Growth and Value shares the EAFE index.
The ticker for the Growth shares is EFG while the tickers for Value shares is EFV.
The expense [...]