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Eric Dutram: Private equity is a very important avenue for growth and prosperity for small and medium companies in the U.S as well as globally. Private equity firms not only bring in much needed cash to the companies, but also expertise and experience to run the business in the most profitable way. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: The ETF industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last five years and innovation across products has brought forth a multitude of previously inaccessible investment strategies to mainstream investors. Aside from the vast expansion in the exchange-traded product universe, the last Read more…
Ron Rowland: You’ve heard the story before: The rich get richer while the rest of us try to keep up. In theory, the U.S. is a land of democracy and equal opportunity — but somehow it doesn’t always work out that way. Read more…
Stocks began Friday’s session with a strong move up, but around 12:30 pm selling pressure entered the market driving stocks well off the day’s highs. Still, all five major indices closed in the green led Read more…
For the second consecutive day Stocks closed modestly higher. After an early morning dip, the broad market recovered and finished the session near the day’s high. The Nasdaq and the S&P Read more…
Early morning selling gave way to a resilient market, as all but one of the major indices closed higher on Tuesday. Despite the market’s recovery there was some unusual divergence in the Read more…
Last week saw the end of a year that was relatively kind to investor portfolios, as most major asset classes managed to post strong results in 2010. As the calendars flip to 2011, the outlook remains Read more…
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Prateek Mehrotra, Chief Investment Officer for iSectors discusses with CNBC how to use ETFs to play the IPO market. In 2010 there have been 66 IPOs versus 14 in all of 2009, and the IPO pipeline is growing. Prateek likes the First Trust US IPO Index (NYSE:FPX), the PowerShares Listed Private Equity Read more…
(Marketwire)– Invesco PowerShares, a leading provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today that the PowerShares Listed Private Equity Portfolio (PSP) will begin tracking the Global Listed Private Equity Index Read more…
According to an SEC filing, the “PowerShares Listed Private Equity Portfolio” (PSP) which sought to replicate an index called the “Red Rocks Listed Private Equity Index” will be changing on September 30, 2009. The fund will be changing its name to Read more…
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