PUR CONSTRUCTS First Course

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PURPOSE :

assess investment objectives;
understand how to organize and source information about ETFs;
identify the two most important screening criteria for ETFs.

Stock exchanges, ETF sponsors and resource sites provide useful information about products including holdings, past performance, costs and other descriptive and technical data.

In Canada Three ETF sponsors offer helpful information for Canadian investors :	U.S. General These sites offer helpful information and are good educational resources :	U.S. Product Centric Links to the sites of the larger ETF sponsors are shown below :

Barclays Global Investors Canada Limited (select “Individual Investor” as investor type)	Index Universe ETFs in registration and U.S. ETF screener	Claymore
Claymore	EDGAR Prospectus and U.S. SEC corporate filings source	Invesco Powershares
Horizon Betapro	FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Broad investing education	Proshares
TMXMoney Educational	NYSE Euronext Educational	Revenue Shares
	Seeking Alpha ETF Center : ETF investing articles from screened contributors	Rydex
	SPDR University Educational	Van Eck Global
	Vanguard ETF vs. ETF comparisons	Wisdomtree