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Products April 6, 2001
Stock Baskets by S&P through E*TRADE
June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - E*TRADE Group, Inc
announced plans to offer a range of proprietary portfolios,
built by Standard & Poor's (S&P), through its Stock
Basket platform.
Reported by Camilla Klein
The service allows E*TRADE’s brokerage customers to purchase and trade ready-made portfolios of shares in dollar-denominations. The stock baskets combine attributes of a mutual fund, such as diversification and convenience, with those of a brokerage account, such as direct stock ownership.
S&P will develop 21 baskets for the platform including:
- five index-based baskets
- 10 sector-based baskets, and
- six investment-style baskets
Analysts from Standard & Poor’s will select the stocks in each basket employing screening processes that involve rules-based quantitative investment disciplines.