Understand how ETFs Work (Zweig, WSJ)

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Understand how ETFs Work (Zweig, WSJ)

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The Stock Got Crushed. Then the ETFs Had to Sell.
The intense trading in a beaten-down company’s shares shows how important it is for index-fund investors to understand what they own
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stock- ... 1580486424
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... t-not-both

Levine's take, I think. My takeaway is buy the market to reduce front-running
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Owning the total market will make us immune to problems like that with the dividend ETF detailed in your link and mine. At least, that kind of problem would be minimized, I would think.
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