Michael Johnston: ALPS, the firm behind the Equal Sector Weight ETF (NYSEARCA:EQL), is debuting a new fund that combines aspects of equal sector weighting with high dividend-paying stocks. The new ALPS Sector Dividend Dog ETF (NYSEARCA:SDOG) will apply Read more…

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Michael Johnston: In the universe of equity ETFs, market capitalization weighting strategies are incredibly dominant. The majority of the hundreds of domestic and international stock ETFs available Read more…

NYSE:EQL, NYSE:EWRI, NYSE:EWRM, NYSE:EWRS, RSP

Michael Johnston: With the finish line in sight, it’s fairly safe to say that 2011 will be remembered by most investors as a wild, back-and-forth year that brought plenty of both hope and despair. A hot start Read more…

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The meteoric rise of the ETF industry–and to a smaller extent the introduction of index mutual funds some 20 years earlier–has had the effect of transforming indexes from hypothetical Read more…

NYSE:DLN, NYSE:EPS, NYSE:EQL, NYSE:SPY, PRF, RSP, RWL

Equal Sector investing notched another victory earlier this month when the ALPS Equal Sector Weight Exchange Traded Fund (“ETF”) (NYSE: EQL) outperformed the S&P 500 Index in its first Read more…

NYSE:EQL

Bob Pisani, in a recent CNBC segment,  looked into the different ways an index can be spliced up by an ETF through weighting methodologies. His example index was the S&P 500, and shows the performance this year based on Read more…

NYSE:EQL, NYSE:SPY, RSP, RWL

DENVER–ALPS is very pleased today to announce the launch of the first Equal Sector ETF, trading under the ticker symbol EQL. The Fund is an ETF of ETFs and will seek to track the performance of the Banc of America Securities – Merrill Lynch Equal Sector Weight Index by owning each of the nine Select Sector SPDR ETFs in equal weights¹. The nine Select Sector SPDR ETFs will be rebalanced back to equal weight on a quarterly Read more…

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