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October data show continued inflows for bonds (including riskier fixed-income assets), while investors withdrew money from U.S. stock mutualfunds and ETFs .
Morningstar's Paul Justice comments on the options that physical commodity, currency, volatility, and single-country ETFs have offered investors, and how these funds may be used in a portfolio.
Vanguard principal and ETF strategist Joel Dickson responds to worries that increased passive investing has led to more market volatility and that ETFs cause investors to gamble with their portfolios.
As economic concerns weighed, taxable-bond funds were the strongest asset gainers in May , but their inflows were only about half what they were the prior month, says Morningstar's Kevin McDevitt.