Dion's Friday ETF Winners and Losers

iPath Dow Jones UBS Sugar Total Return Subindex ETN (SGG) -0.4%

Sugar has risen steeply throughout the week as supply concerns are met with increasing demand. On Friday, however, the sweetener took a slight break from its ascension. A day like Friday highlights the stable nature of diversified agriculture products such as the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund (DBA). DBA is trading flat today.

Conservative investors with a desire for agriculture futures exposure should pick DBA over a single commodity fund.

All prices as of 2:15 PM EST

Written by Don Dion in Williamstown, Mass.

At the time of publication, Dion Money Management was long PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund and iShares Dow Jones Dividend Select Index Fund.

Don Dion is president and founder of Dion Money Management, a fee-based investment advisory firm to affluent individuals, families and nonprofit organizations, where he is responsible for setting investment policy, creating custom portfolios and overseeing the performance of client accounts. Founded in 1996 and based in Williamstown, Mass., Dion Money Management manages assets for clients in 49 states and 11 countries. Dion is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and Maine and has more than 25 years' experience working in the financial markets, having founded and run two publicly traded companies before establishing Dion Money Management.

Dion also is publisher of the Fidelity Independent Adviser family of newsletters, which provides to a broad range of investors his commentary on the financial markets, with a specific emphasis on mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. With more than 100,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 29 other countries, Fidelity Independent Adviser publishes six monthly newsletters and three weekly newsletters. Its flagship publication, Fidelity Independent Adviser, has been published monthly for 11 years and reaches 40,000 subscribers.

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