Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with more than $50 billion in franchise assets, announced today that it expects to deliver zero Read more…

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So, is the United States headed towards deflation? While the financial markets have worried about it off and on for many months, of more concern right now is a potential bubble in the U.S. Treasury market. My colleague, Investment U’s Alexander Green, has noted several times the dangers of buying Read more…

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Ian Salisbury from the  online WSJ  reports that ”BlackRock Inc.’s (BLK) plan to buy exchange-traded fund powerhouse Barclays Global Investors has prompted speculation the combined entity could dominate the active ETF business. There’s one hitch: so far, active ETFs have been a flop.” 

“It’s too early to tell exactly how BlackRock plans to approach ETFs. But it has hardly been shy about highlighting the potential benefits of marrying its expertise as a stock- and bond-picker with Barclays’ more hands-off indexing approach,” Ian Salisbury Reports.  Read more…

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Actively managed exchange-traded funds haven’t attracted assets as quickly as some have expected, but that hasn’t slowed the race to expand ETFs beyond their index-tracking roots.

Most ETFs defined as actively managed are still quantitative and formulaic. Still, the first to qualify as actively managed in the traditional sense — using analysis and known stock pickers — have already come to market, and more are on the way.

ETFs are baskets of securities that trade like individual stocks. Their structures generally offer cost and tax advantages over conventional mutual funds as well as more transparency because they disclose their holdings daily.  Read more…

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