Seeking Alpha Seeking Alpha Portfolio App for iPad  Some of you
may remember watching the 1987 thriller, "Fatal Attraction." In
the hit film that featured six Academy Award nominations,
Michael Douglas portrays a married man who has a week-end affair
with a woman (played by Glenn Close) who refuses to allow the
relationship to end. The fling turns into emotional blackmail,
stalking and an ensuing obsession on her part. Thanks to the
success of the movie, "fatal attraction" has become a household
term for love turned to murderous obsession, and the use of the
phrase could also be applied to ETF Investing.  Exchange Traded
Funds (ETFs) are a simple, relatively inexpensive method of
gaining investment exposure to different asset classes or
indices. They tend to have low management fees and closely track
their benchmarks. An unstated, though fundamental, element to
purchasing many of the widely held equity index ETFs: Buying the
good, the mediocre and the bad equities. The counteracting
factor for owning the univ