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Tim Seymour: Everyone has been talking about how cheap emerging-market equities look after the recent sell-off. This is also true when you compare them to emerging-markets bonds. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Emerging debt markets have become one of the most crowded trades on the planet, for better or worse. This week on CNBC’s Trading the Globe, we drill into whether these bonds still make sense. Read more…
Jared Cummans: The ETF industry continues to expand at an impressive rate, with dozens of new products debuting every month and the size of the lineup quickly approaching the 1,300 mark. While each new month generally brings a number of new product launches, it also beings some Read more…
The fixed income corner of the ETF industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, as investors have become increasingly comfortable with achieving bond exposure through the exchange-traded structure. In 2010 more than $26 billion flowed into bond ETFs, following a year Read more…
Tim Seymour: Last week saw the biggest redemptions in equity funds that cover the developed world since last August. Emerging markets funds have held up relatively well. Read more…
David Fry: With yields low, investors seeking income are tempted to seek yield in other sectors where real rates of return after inflation can be found. Higher yields have traditionally been found Read more…
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Ron Rowland: When you get a chance at two birds with one stone, it’s usually a good idea to take it. Three birds with one stone is even better! Read more…
Fidelity Investments announced on Wednesday that it has added a five more iShares exchange traded funds to its free trading program. Fidelity now offers its brokerage customers free trading on 30 ETFs all managed by BlackRock’s iShares unit, up from 25 when the partnership began Read more…
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As developing nations continue to draw investor attention, opportunities in developing market debt may present a viable opportunity. Read more…
In recent years, emerging markets have been established as the clear leaders of global GDP growth, while the economies of the U.S. and western Europe have stalled. Developed markets are facing Read more…
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Over the past few years, investors’ comfort level with obtaining bond exposure via ETFs has increased rapidly as a multitude of new products have hit the market, slicing and dicing the fixed Read more…
Many ask … what makes gold a valuable investment; and note that it is falling lower in price. Historical research shows that monetization of debt by a central bank, such as the US Federal Read more…
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Creativity on the product development front has become a defining characteristic of the ETF industry, as the surge in the number of ETF offerings in recent years has been driven not by 
With European sovereign debt? Nope. Municipal and state debt? Nope. Long-term U.S. Treasuries? Haha! Don’t make me laugh! 
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