The Claymore/Sabrient Insider ETF (NFO) has come to the attention of the ETF Professor after receiving the prestigous four-star rating from Morningstar:
One such offering is the Claymore/Sabrient Insider ETF (NYSE: NFO). NFO is an ETF that focuses on stocks that are looking attractive to “insiders” such as company executives, fund managers
and sell side analysts.
The start of the new year always presents opportunities to reflect on the past year and to look toward the future of what can come about and to explore that “undiscovered country.” Beyond our personal challenges, the question on many investors minds now is what information do we have now to help predict the future events in the markets. The nice bounce on Monday {January 4, 2010} of about 1.5% gain on the Dow Jones Industrial Average had me thinking back to the old adage of “as goes January, so goes the year” and starting off with a bang could not hurt to at least portend positive results for January. The January 4th edition of the Wall Street Journal (C1) showed that when the Dow was up in January the median gain for the year was 10.4 and a 0.3% gain for when January markets were down for years 1900 to 2009. But Mark Hulbert says “First trading day of year may mean little.” He also expands the reasoning in “January’s questionable predictive powers.”
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The Claymore/Sabrient Insider ETF (NFO) racks up another accolade, this one from Michael Johnston at ETFdb.com. He talks about the expansion of ETFs from a “closet industry” five years ago to an investment option for mainstream investors and about the growing number of quant-based funds:
One fund that enjoyed a particularly good year, however, is also one of the most interesting: the Claymore/Sabrient Insider ETF (NFO).
He goes on to “look under the hood” of NFO, which you can read about here.
There are five bullish signs coming out of corporate suites that indicate we’re headed out of the recession and into a sustained recovery, according to Samuel Fromartz of Fidelity. The signs include insider buying, and Mr. Fromartz points to the Claymore/Sabrient Insider ETF (NFO) as evidence, mentioning that NFO has risen 105% since the market low in March. Read the entire article here.
In an interview with Howard Gold of the Money Show Video Network, Sabrient’s Chief Market Strategist David Brown reviews some of the specialized indices that Sabrient has developed for ETF providers. Tickers: DEF, NFO. Here’s the interview. (03:17)
