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Do exchange-traded funds (ETFs) turn long-term investors into speculative day traders, as some critics claim? Not according to a new Vanguard research paper, ETFs: For the better or bettor?, Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Over the last few years, issuers have been waging their own little war in the ETF industry: the battle of the ticker symbol. Some of the most popular and intriguing funds are being caught on investors’ radars simply because of their cleverly Read more…
GENCAP Ventures, LLC has purchased Factor Advisors, LLC, a provider of SEC 1933 act listed Exchange-traded funds. There are currently five spread trade commodity funds listed on the NYSE under the tickers FSA, FSG, FSE, FSU and FOL. Further, the Read more…
Christian Magoon: The ETF industry is growing by leaps and bounds. New entrants and products appear almost every week, assets are on the rise and many of the unique features of ETFs including transparency and efficiency are in demand. Yet with all this growth Read more…
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today the anticipated listing of the PowerShares DWA SmallCap Technical Leaders™ Portfolio on July 19, 2012 on the NYSE Arca. The new Fund Read more…
Futures are up a bit after one of the longest losing streaks of the year. It seems like we’re oversold enough for some type of bounce, but my gut tells me it won’t be much. The SPY is trading around $134.00 as I write this. Above yesterday’s high of $134.10, there could Read more…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued a new Investor Alert called Exchange-Traded Notes—Avoid Unpleasant Surprises to inform investors of the features and risks of exchange-traded notes (ETNs).
ETNs are a type of debt security Read more…
US stock futures point to a lower open this morning after the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last FOMC meeting gave no hint that a further round of monetary stimulus was coming. Stocks closed lower on Wednesday, and the disappointment continues to Read more…
Ron Rowland: Twenty-four new members joined ETF Deathwatch for July. Seventeen are ETFs and seven are ETNs. Only six products came off the list, yielding a net increase of eighteen. It’s been fifteen months since the list produced a net Read more…
Ron Rowland: The ETF count for June stands at 1,476, consisting of 1,259 ETFs and 217 ETNs. Eleven new product introductions during the month brought the launch count to 124 for the first half of 2012. Read more…
Jared Cummans: Commodity investing has been around for decades, but it was only recently that their popularity has spread to the general public. It is now generally recommended that investors set aside anywhere from 5% to 10% of their capital for a commodity allocation, Read more…
Steve Cohen, head of Investment Strategies for EMEA at BlackRock (NYSE:BLK), told CNBC that “the first half of this year has been a record for Read more…
“If you looked at the second quarter within the European Exchange Traded Funds space had it not been for fixed income ETFs we would have had net outflows from the entire ETF space, but Read more…
My iMac was smoking. After writing a few weeks ago on why the U.S. dollar will remain the world’s leading reserve currency, the comments from readers came fast and furious. “Are you stupid?” and, “How naïve you are?” were some of the more polite comments. Some suggested that Read more…
There’s a huge opportunity coming in bonds. It won’t look like an opportunity to most; the press will actually call it a bust. But, with the right planning in place, it’ll produce huge returns with virtually no risk. In fact, as this “bust” develops, you’ll actually be able to Read more…
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