Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. (CSIM) announced today that assets under management in its eight Schwab exchange-traded funds (ETF) exceeded $1 billion on Read more…

SCHA, SCHB, SCHC, SCHE, SCHF, SCHG, SCHV, SCHX

The world’s biggest ETF conference kicked off in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Monday. “There’s obviously a tremendous amount of interest in the Europe about the ETF market,” Jim Wyandt from IndexUniverse.eu said. He and colleague Paul Amery discuss various Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, video

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have enjoyed a growing success in the past couple of years. The world’s biggest ETF conference takes place in Amsterdam Monday. Deborah Fuhr, MD at Blackrock, told CNBC that Sunday was the tenth anniversary of the first ETF product launched in Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, video

Credit Suisse is set to begin trading the “Credit Suisse Cushing 30 MLP Index ETN” (MLPN) tomorrow April 13th. The return on the ETNs will be based on the performance of the Index during the term of the ETNs. The Index is reported by Bloomberg under the ticker symbol “MLPX <Index>”. The Index Read more…

MLPN

There’s a certain element out there in the investment community that believes that ETFs are supposed to be strictly low cost, plain vanilla, equity index funds, i.e. “cheap beta” products Read more…

MCRO, MNA, QAI

In midday trading Friday, the SPDR International Mid-Cap ETF (AMEX:MDD) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 2.6% on the day. And Read more…

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Stamford, CT USA — Although exchange traded funds (ETFs) are most commonly thought of as a retail product, institutional investors are finding that ETFs can be helpful tools in such critical portfolio management tasks as cash equitization, transition management, rebalancing, and obtaining hard-to- Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

ProShares announced today that it will execute reverse share splits on nine ProShares ETFs. The reverse splits will be effective for shareholders of record after the close of the markets on April 14, 2010. Seven of the funds will execute a 1-for-5 reverse split of shares, and two will execute a 1-for- Read more…

NYSE:DUG, NYSE:EEV, NYSE:FXP, NYSE:GLL, SMN, SRS, URE, UYG, ZSL

As the investment industry struggles with the challenge of delivering active strategies within the exchange-traded fund format, Princeton-based Javelin Investment Management thinks that its new index-based fund has found the sweet spot. Read more…

JCO

ETF Securities announced today that assets under management of its physically-backed platinum ETF (NYSE: PPLT) is now at $534M as of April 1, 2010 Read more…

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ProShares, the leading manager of leveraged and inverse ETFs, announced today that it is launching the first ETFs with leveraged and inverse exposure to the biotechnology sector. The ETFs seek to provide 200% or -200% of the return of the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index® for a single day. Read more…

NASDAQ:BIB, NASDAQ:BIS

Dennis Gartman appeared on CNBC yesterday to make his pitch for why he is putting the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) into his portfolio. What is his reason why? Diversification. Gartman points to continuing Euro Problems, cash flow he feels will not be into dollar, and gold is a real reserve asset. Gartman Read more…

NYSE:GLD, SGOL

Javelin announced an updated release date today for their JETS Contrarian Opportunities Index Fund ETF (JCO). JCO was to begin trading today. The fund is now scheduled to begin trading tomorrow, April 9th. We will provide more information as it becomes available.

JCO

“Whatever happened to American television industry is about to happen to a big chunk of the high tech industry. Remember Zenith and RCA? Those American companies pioneered television technology Read more…

NYSE:CQQQ

In midday trading Wednesday, the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (AMEX: GDX) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 3.1% on the day. And underperforming other ETFs today is the SPDR International Consumer Discretionary ETF (AMEX: IPD), down about 1.9% in Wednesday afternoon Read more…

IPD, NYSE:GDX, video