With so few quality Materials ETFs available to investors, 53% of investor assets in Materials ETFs are invested in ETFs with Dangerous-or-worse Portfolio Management Ratings.

There are at least 213 different Financial mutual funds and at least 601 mutual funds across all sectors. Do investors need that many choices? How different can the mutual funds be?

Those that consider specialty chemicals producer ASH a “value” stock are mistaken. The stock is cheap by traditional metrics such as price to earnings, but a closer look reveals the value to be an illusion.