this article is about a RE ETF that begins trading tomorrow with a serious weighting Australian RE companies.
the question is ............ is this our mystery buyer of the last few days? (wishful thinking maybe)
here is the article with a link at the end
Van Eck To Begin Trading The Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (REMX) Tomorrow October 28th
Van Eck is set to begin trading their new Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF tomorrow. This new fund, which was originally proposed as the Minor Metals ETF, was recently changed to become the Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF. It will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol (NYSE:REMX), and will have a total annual fund operating expense of .57%. The Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (the Fund) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index.
The Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index is a rules based, modified capitalization weighted, float adjusted index intended to give investors a means of tracking the overall performance of publicly traded companies primarily engaged in a variety of activities that are related to the producing, refining and recycling of rare earth and strategic metals and minerals.
Constituent stocks of the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index must have a market capitalization of greater than $150 million on a rebalancing date to be eligible for the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index. Stocks whose market capitalizations fall below $75 million as of any rebalancing date will no longer be eligible for the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index. Stocks must have a three-month average daily trading volume value of at least $1.0 million to be eligible for the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index and issuers of such stocks must have traded at least 250,000 shares each month over the last six months. Only shares that trade on a recognized domestic or international stock exchange may qualify (e.g., National Stock Market stocks must be NMS securities under Rule 600(b) of Regulation NMS. Similar criteria and standards apply to stocks with foreign listings).
As of October 11, 2010, the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index included 24 securities of companies with a market capitalization range of between approximately $157 million and $370 billion and an average market capitalization of $1.2 billion.
The Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index is calculated and maintained by Structured Solutions AG on behalf of the Index Provider. The Index Provider is not affiliated with the Fund. Index values are calculated on weekdays and are disseminated every 15 seconds between the hours of approximately 1:00 CET 23:30 CET.
The Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index is calculated using a capitalization weighting methodology, adjusted for float, which is modified so as to ensure compliance with the diversification requirements of Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code. The Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index is reconstituted quarterly, at the close of business on the third Friday in a quarter-end month (i.e., March, June, September and December) and companies are added and/or deleted based upon the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index eligibility criteria. Companies with recent stock exchange listings, i.e., recent initial public offerings, may be added to the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index on a quarterly basis, provided the companies meet all eligibility criteria and have been trading for more than 30 trading days. The share weights of the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index components are adjusted also on a quarterly basis (every third Friday in a quarter-end month).
Rebalancing data, including constituent weights and related information, is posted on the Index Providers web site prior to the start of trading on the first business day following the third Friday of a quarter-end month. A press announcement identifying additions and deletions to the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index is issued five days prior to a rebalancing date. Share weights of the constituents remain constant between quarters except in the event of certain types of corporate actions, including stock splits and reverse stock splits.
Principal Investment Strategies
The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its total assets in securities that comprise the Funds benchmark index. The Funds benchmark index is comprised of foreign and domestic equity securities of publicly traded companies primarily engaged in a variety of activities that are related to the producing, refining and recycling of rare earth and strategic metals and minerals. Such companies may include small-, medium- and micro-capitalization companies. Rare earth/strategic metals are industrial metals that are typically mined as by-products or secondary metals in operations focused on precious metals and base metals. Compared to base metals, they have more specialized uses and are often more difficult to extract. Currently, approximately 49 elements in the periodic table are considered rare earth/strategic metals. Rare earth metals (or rare earth elements), a subset of strategic metals, are a collection of chemical elements that are crucial to many of the worlds most advanced technologies, such as cellular phones, high performance batteries, flat screen televisions, green energy technology, and are critical to the future of hybrid and electric cars, high-tech military applications and superconductors and fiber-optic communication systems. The Funds 80% investment policy is non-fundamental and requires 60 days prior written notice to shareholders before it can be changed.
The Fund, using a passive or indexing investment approach, attempts to approximate the investment performance of the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index by investing in a portfolio of securities that generally replicates the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index. The Adviser expects that, over time, the correlation between the Funds performance and that of the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index before fees and expenses will be 95% or better. A figure of 100% would indicate perfect correlation.
The Fund may also utilize depositary receipts to seek performance that corresponds to the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index.
The Fund may concentrate its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to the extent that the Rare Earth/Strategic Metals Index concentrates in an industry or group of industries.
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