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Michael Johnston: AdvisorShares added to its rapidly-growing lineup of active ETFs today with the debut of the Accuvest Global Opportunities ETF (NYSEArca:ACCU), which utilizes country-specific ETFs with the goal of generating excess returns relative to benchmarks such as the MSCI All Country Read more…
Jared Cummans: One of the founding principles of the ETF industry was cost competitiveness; after being charged upwards of 150 basis points for their favorite mutual funds, investors had grown tired of surrendering a substantial portion of their gains to the managers of big name funds. Now, there are Read more…
Michael Johnston: Financial advisors and individual investors who have embraced ETFs are generally painted as a cost conscious crowd, passing over expensive active mutual funds in favor of cheap Read more…
Fears about the strength of the global recovery–not the proliferation of exchange-traded produces–are driving the wild swings in the stock market, says iShares’ Leland Clemons. Leland says, “So, we’ve actually done quite a bit Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: The proliferation of exchange-traded products offering investors exposure to dividend-focused strategies is a testament to the efficiency of the marriage of this methodology with the inherently appealing exchange-traded structure. The wealth of choices is certainly a luxury, as it allows investors Read more…
There are no unused superlatives to describe the trading range that’s been trapping markets for more than two months. The range has become something akin to the moon 100 years ago; it just sits there, placidly Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1 – Maintain long-term overweight equities: While Friday’s unemployment report was not great, it does suggest that the United States is not on the verge of another recession — and therefore, equities look cheap. Stock valuations are now close to multi-decade lows, and equities look Read more…
Tim Seymour: Stock markets around the world gained ground Tuesday as global traders became more sanguine about the European Union’s ability to come together to save its troubled currency. Read more…
US markets experienced their biggest drop since February 2009, with the Nasdaq getting hit the hardest down more than 5%. The selling was persistent all day and volume was heavy, signalling widespread fear and pessimism. Economic problems in the US are nothing new, and we have been aware of Europe’s deep problems for quite some time, but perhaps the difference now is the absence of the firm bid from the Fed’s QE Read more…
The Financial Times is reporting that Deborah Fuhr, a fixture in the ETF Industry, is leaving Blackrock. Deborah was the Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy and a Managing Director at BlackRock. Under Ms Fuhr’s guidance, BlackRock’s Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy team was responsible for advising clients on the implementation of asset allocation Read more…
Here are three easy ways to beat the market: Deception, irrelevance and bad math. Perhaps some explanation is in order… It’s a well-known fact that three out of four investment professionals fail to beat an unmanaged index each year. Over the long term, the percentage is much greater. Yet everywhere you go, investment advisors claim they’re generating superior results. It’s a bit confounding. So let’s take a Read more…
David Fry: This posting features a comprehensive review of the large cap ETF sector. To simplify matters for investors, and to be consistent with previous practices, we’ve highlighted what we feel are the top 10 choices in this category. Doing so makes sorting through the sector more manageable Read more…
I first started talking about the Head and Shoulders Pattern in the S&P last week, and followed up on Tuesday with a chart showing the neckline of the pattern getting tested. The neckline was the 1255-1285 area. The measured move of the pattern is down to 
Laszlo Birinyi thinks the current bull market is still intact and ultimately the S&P 500 is going to 2,000 by the time the rally runs dry. Not 1,400, not 1,450 but a booming, ripping, too good to ignore 50% higher from 
The expansion of the ETF industry over the last several years has been truly impressive, as the product lineup has grown to more than 1,200 exchange-traded products and assets have passed 
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