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Michael Johnston: When the Federal Reserve announced recently that it plans to keep key interest rates at nearly zero until 2014, it hardly came as a surprise. With the economic recovery still in a very fragile state and inflationary pressures remaining tame, record low interest rates are expected to hang Read more…
The ETF industry’s strong growth in recent years has led to innovation across the board. Now, investors can find products that offer exposure to nearly every corner of global markets through a single ticker. And while many of these new options have been welcomed with open arms Read more…
Actively-managed ETFs have been all the rage so far this year as a number of issuers have thrown their hats into the increasingly competitive ring. One person who offered up some insight on this rapidly changing market was Tom Graves, CFA, who is an Equity Analyst at Standard & Poor’s. Read more…
DOWN 5% in the first 86 days of the second quarter! UP 4.6% in the final four days! And most recently: Rising convincingly 4 days in July, then plunging just as convincingly the next 3 days, then roaring ahead yesterday based on some words spoken by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Read more…
Since PowerShares debuted its first active ETFs in the spring of 2008, this corner of the exchange-traded product market has grown tremendously. Though many active ETFs have been somewhat Read more…
PIMCO dropped some big news on the market on Wednesday with a filing for a PIMCO Total Return ETF. This is potentially game-changing news for the ETF industry and ETF investors. Morningstar’s Jason Stipp brought in Eric Jacobson, director of fixed-income research, and Paul Read more…
PIMCO, the world’s largest bond manager, has ETF investors salivating over the prospect of an ETF version of the ultra-popular Total Return Fund. In a recent SEC filing, PIMCO laid the groundwork Read more…
Actively managed ETFs first burst onto the scene in 2009 and the going was tough at the start. Issuers of active ETFs initially had a difficult time capturing investors’ attention because actively Read more…
While many of the “first generation” of ETFs offered exposure to widely-followed equity indexes, the universe of exchange-traded products has expanded at a tremendous pace in recent years to 
The deep freeze that has kept more than a dozen of would-be issuers of active ETFs from entering into the space seems to be thawing a bit; shortly after iShares received the green light from the 
The Dow Jones Industrial rose 2.72% in January 2011, while the S&P500 rose 2.26%. This might not seem like a lot compared to the 6.53% gain in Dec 2010 but it still was the first positive 
For most of 2010, the large majority of assets in the Active ETF space were to be found in currency funds, all of which are run by WisdomTree Investments. As the chart below shows, as of July 31, 
Bob Pisani discusses the projected ETF trends in the coming year. Bob sees the expansion of industrial metal ETFs, and price wars to 
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