Submitted by Kelly Kenneally (IRRC Institute)

NEW YORK, NY, – The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and PROXY Governance Inc. today released a new in-depth analysis of the proxy voting policies and recent voting records of seven of the largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) sponsors, which account for some 94% of the ETF market. The findings indicate a considerable variation in the voting patterns and philosophies of these funds. Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Stocks have enjoyed 35%+ gains from the March lows, but the market has been trading sideways ever since.  Volume has dried up and investors will be looking for a direction in the markets.  Technology has seemed to hold up strong during these turbulent times and will try to emerge as leaders.  Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, QQQQ, ROM, TYH

BetaPro Management Inc. announced the launch of two new silver ETFs on Tuesday. In what seems to be a theme lately, these two silver ETF’s are of the 2X leveraged variety. The pair are a bull and a bear that are offered to investors looking to gain access to 200% of the performance or inverse performance of the silver futures contract Market. The Silver Bull Plus ETF (HZU) seeks daily investment results Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Real Estate has historically been one of the best places to invest for the last century.  The recent financial crisis and housing bubble has scared investors from investing in the real asset.  Some investors see opportunity in the crisis and are buying bank owned property and other distressed inventory at bargain basement prices.  Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, URE

Two European ETF providers announced the launch of leveraged ETF’s today. In Paris, Casam announced added leveraged and short ETFs to its product line. In Amsterdam ETF Securities announced that it was listing four new double leveraged and double short ETFs on Amsterdam market of NYSE Euronext.

Structured Products reports on Casam stating Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

From bnymellon.com (Press Release): NEW YORK, June 30, 2009 — BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, the global leader in securities servicing, announced today that it has exceeded $100 billion in exchange-traded fund (ETF) assets under custody. BNY Mellon is the largest U.S. custodian for ETFs in terms of funds serviced, providing services to more than 350 separate funds. Over the last 10 years, Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Today marks the first time investors will be able to purchase exchange traded products linked to U.S. Housing. MacroMarkets says it is planning for shares of the MacroShares Major Metro Up (UMM) and the MacroShares Major Metro Down (DMM) to start trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Read more…

NYSE:DMM, UMM

Russell Investments released its list of companies making the Russell family of indexes today (Monday). Several exchange-traded funds are set to show a different makeup due to the reshuffling. Russell Investments finished after trading on Friday, but complete final results weren’t made public into today.

A quick synopsis of the changes are as follows: Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Max Rottersman from ETF GUIDE has a recipe for investing in ETF’s.  He has created  ETF triangles for a guide to create hedging positions with ETF’s using low-correlated triangles.  We found it to be an interesting story for you to take a look at. Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:EEM, QAI

Brooke Thackray’s 2009 Investor’s Guide states that gold has a period of seasonal strength from July 12 to Oct. 9. and has been profitable in 18 of the past 24 periods.

This trade during the three month period has outperformed the S&P 500 index by Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:GLD

Andrew Mickey, writing for the International Business Times, thinks he has the answer. In an article dated today, he gives his advice as a matter of relativity. Andrew dives into the skewed relationships that are created in highly volatile markets. His theory, look at those skewed relationships, such as the historical relationship of gold to gold miners, and gold to silver. He finds that there is a Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, UNG, USO

The shortened 4th of July holiday week begins with warnings from the World Bank, a consumer who would rather save than spend. In what will be a volatile low volume week, we have included some key technical market indicators to look at for your ETF trading. Read more…

QQQQ, XLE, XLF, XRT

During the scariest times of panic in 2008, you would of thought gold and silver would of been at bubble like highs?  Instead we have ourselves wondering where these metals are headed since the panic is over for now.  Some believe we could still break the highs in the shiny metals by the end of this year, and some say you could be waiting a long time. Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:GLD, SLV

Mike Gurka, from Empowerglobal Funds and the CNBC Fast Money team discussed Mike’s picks are for global ETF’s. Mike likes South Africa (ETF: EZA), Brazil (ETF: EWZ) , and Taiwan (ETF: EWT).  Mike thinks that by getting into these ETF’s you are not necessarily getting in on the bottom, although you would be Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:EWT, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:EZA

Ron Rowland Reports from istockanalyst.com that “Actively managed ETFs have been touted as the ultimate ETF product.  So far it has been all hype, or as they say “all show and no go”.  With so much buzz, you would think at least one active product would have gained some traction.  That is not the case.  Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS