With over 850 species, the genus Nomada is one of the largest genera in the entire family Apidae, and the largest genus of cleptoparasitic cuckoo bees.. They occur worldwide, and utilize many different types of bees as hosts, primarily the genus Andrena.
In an earlier article, I wrote about the iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Fund ETF (NYSEARCA: REM) as a good way to generate income in an environment where interest rates are low, and yields on investment grade bonds are quite possibly at long-time lows.hile I initially thought that an ETF would be a more attractive investment because of the diversification, I found that the performance of REM significantly lagged the performance of both AGNC and NLY over all periods analyzed.
The exchange-traded fund (ETF) marketplace is active, competitive and ever-growing. It's also very top-heavy; the biggest firms dominate a very large portion of total investment assets under management (AUM).ounded in 1792, State Street Global Advisors offers more than 100 ETFs. Most of these are referred to as SPDR funds. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is the oldest and largest such ETF, with nearly $125 billion in AUM. SPY is the most actively traded ETF in the world.