Archive for December, 2006

Withdrawing money from Sogoinvest

Friday, December 29th, 2006

As mentioned in a previous post, a few people have voiced concerns of the “hoops” that they have to jump through to get their money out from the Sogoinvest account (for example, see Raj’s experience HERE and Sogo-Nogo’s experience HERE and HERE).
With the recent cash dividend distribution from my VWO holding, I decided to test […]

Sogoinvest or Zecco?

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

I opened a Sogoinvest account some time in August and have been adding money periodically to the account. So far, I have not made any withdrawals from this account.
During this time, a few people have voiced concerns of the “hoops” that they have to jump through to get their money out from the Sogoinvest account […]

International Real Estate ETF launched

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

I just read from a post on the Diehards forum that SSgA’s international real estate ETF (ticker RWX) had started trading yesterday. According to the fact sheet, this ETF tracks the DJ Wilshire Ex-US Real Estate Securities Index:
The Dow Jones Wilshire Ex-US Real Estate Securities Index is a float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index that defines […]