Michael Johnston:  The FocusShares lineup of ETFs hit its one year milestone this week, marking the anniversary of the launch of 15 products focusing on U.S. equities. When FocusShares made its entrance 12 months ago, it marked the latest development in an ongoing “price war” in the ETF industry; many of the Read more…

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ETF Base: Exchange-traded funds have commoditized broad allocation strategies. As exchange-traded funds require only a modest amount of overhead and competition intensifies, fund fees plunge with each passing day. Read more…

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Michael Johnston:  Impressive growth has been a defining characteristic of the ETF industry over the last several years, as both the number of products and aggregate asset totals have skyrocketed. While a big portion of the expansion is attributable to “plain vanilla” ETFs offering exposure to well Read more…

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The ETP lineup now consists of nearly 1,200 individual products with aggregate assets of well more than $1 trillion. And both of those numbers continue to expand at an impressive rate; Read more…

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Any investor who hasn’t been living under a rock probably has some idea as to why the ETF industry has been expanding so quickly over the last several years. Intra-day liquidity, enhanced Read more…

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A flash crash reminiscent price plunge forced the Nasdaq OMX to cancel the trades on new exchange-traded funds that on Thursday saw their share prices tank.  Reuters is reporting that, “The ETFs, sponsored by Scottrade affiliate FocusShares, started trading on Wednesday and on Thursday plunged Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS, NYSE:FBM, NYSE:FCD, NYSE:FCL, NYSE:FCQ, NYSE:FEG, NYSE:FFL, NYSE:FHC, NYSE:FIL, NYSE:FLG, NYSE:FMM, NYSE:FMU, NYSE:FOS, NYSE:FRL, NYSE:FTQ, NYSE:FUI

FocusShares, LLC, a registered investment advisor (RIA), exchange-traded fund (ETF) sponsor and affiliate of online investing firm Scottrade, Inc., today launched 15 new low-cost ETFs benchmarked to indexes licensed from Morningstar, Inc. The FocusTM Morningstar ETFs begin trading today on Read more…

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FocusShares will begin trading its new “Focus Morningstar US Market Index ETF” (NYSE:FMU) Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The Focus Morningstar US Market Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that correspond, before fees and expenses, generally to the price and yield Read more…

FUND LAUNCH, NYSE:FMU

In October 2008, FocusShares announced that it was shutting down its four ETFs after the funds had failed to attract significant assets in about a year of operations. That first generation of Read more…

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FocusShares has filed paperwork with the SEC for a “Focus Morningstar US Market Index ETF.” The Focus Morningstar US Market Index ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that Read more…

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