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Eric Dutram: The ETF world has gained immense popularity in recent years, finally surging through the important $1 trillion mark for assets under management. While part of the interest has Read more…
Stocks were under consistent selling pressure on Wednesday on higher volume. By the end of the session, all five major indices were well in the red, and near the day’s lows. Smaller cap issues felt the brunt of the selling pressure. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) and the S&P MidCap 400 Read more…
After a poor start, stocks closed well off session lows but trade was light. Four of the five major indices ended the day modestly lower but the S&P MidCap 400 managed to eke out a 0.1% gain. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) closed down by 0.7% while the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) dropped 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…
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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Paul Weisbruch: In 2007, the ETF provider known as First Trust Portfolios launched their “AlphaDex” methodology, which in hindsight, proved to be well ahead of its time. Read more…
There is no denying that the ETF boom is in full swing, as billions of dollars continue to flow into the industry every month despite a difficult economic environment. As individual investors and Read more…
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“Investors should beware of the increasing number of ETFs that use derivative contracts to achieve investment objectives. While the use of swaps has helped many ETF Read more…
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“Last Friday (7/24/09), one ETF died and a new ETF was born. However, you won’t see these events in most ETF statistics because it was the same fund. The Claymore/Great Companies Large-Cap Growth Index ETF Read more…
A year after the notorious “Flash Crash,” CNBC’s Herb Greenburg addresses the alarmingly high level of ETF failures to settle. A settlement failure occurs when somebody’s not 
Small cap ETFs are generally made up of investments in companies with less than $1 billion in market capitalization. Small Cap Growth ETFs offer investors diversification throughout a wide 
Large Cap Blend ETFs provide access to both growth and value stocks, looking for high returns while hedging that risk with more stable securities. Large Cap ETFs invest across the entire 
We are initiating weekly tracking of the nine different styles or subclasses in the US Equity asset class. We use ETFs to represent each sub-class. We track returns over 1, 4, 13, 26, and 52 weeks and 
Global X, the New York-based ETF issuer behind popular products focusing on equities of commodity producers 
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