Stoyan Bojinov: After a tumultuous 2011 many investors are still finding their footing in the markets as confidence in the global economic recovery remains battered down. Despite persistent volatility Read more…

NYSE:FNIO, NYSE:ICF, NYSE:ROOF, NYSE:VNQ, PSR

The PowerShares Active US Real Estate Fund (NYSE:PSR) is what you’d call the grandfather of actively-managed ETFs, relative to other funds in the space of course. PSR is the second oldest Read more…

PSR

The ETF industry has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks in large part to a shift by investors towards cost-efficient passive indexing strategies and away from pricey active Read more…

NYSE:ALT, NYSE:CYB, NYSE:ELD, NYSE:GTAA, NYSE:GVT, NYSE:MINT, PSR

On October 1, 2010, the currency traders took the Euro, (NYSE:FXE), strongly higher causing Gold, (NYSE:GLD), Oil, (NYSE:UCO), Tin, (NYSE:JJT), Silver, (NYSE:SLV), Metal Manufacturing, Read more…

NASDAQ:CU, NYSE:AMJ, NYSE:BND, NYSE:BZF, NYSE:CUT, NYSE:DBB, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EWO, NYSE:EWP, NYSE:EWZ, NYSE:FIO, NYSE:FXE, NYSE:FXY, NYSE:IEF, NYSE:INP, NYSE:ITB, NYSE:IWM, NYSE:JJT, NYSE:KBE, NYSE:MUB, NYSE:SHY, NYSE:SLV, NYSE:SMH, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:SWH, NYSE:TAN, NYSE:TLT, NYSE:UCO, NYSE:XME, PSR

When expectations are missed by such a margin, everyone starts questioning their assumptions. On Aug 24^th, US existing home sales plunged by 27%. Where consensus expectations were for Read more…

NYSE:IYR, NYSE:VNQ, PSR

As I watch the exchange-traded fund (ETF) universe grow, I keep having flashbacks to the huge increase in the number of mutual funds in the 1990s Read more…

NYSE:IYR, PSR

George Van Dyke, an independent financial consultant in Towson, Maryland, advises his clients to use real estate investment trusts, EITS, and exchange-traded funds, ETFs, to diversify into real estate. The vehicles are Read more…

NYSE:DMM, NYSE:DRN, NYSE:VNQ, PSR

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…

PLK, PMA, PQY, PQZ, PSR