Why pick on exchange traded notes? None of the proposed 'fixes' would solve the tax issues surrounding ETNs.(The Tax-Conscious Adviser) From: Investment News | Date: May 5, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Robert N. Gordon

The time is drawing near for comments requested by the Department of the Treasury regarding changing the taxation of exchange traded notes and other prepaid forward contracts.

ETNs have many attractive features: low expense ratios, no tracking error, public market trading and access to markets or trading strategies not easily executed by individual investors. Their main drawback is that the investor does not own a proportionate share o...

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