Michael Johnston: AdvisorShares, one of the largest issuers of active ETFs, made another addition to its lineup this week with the debut of a fund that will seek to capture results of long/short hedge fund managers. The new QAM Equity Hedge ETF Read more…
NYSE:BIL, NYSE:HDG, NYSE:QEH, NYSE:SHV, NYSE:WDTI, QAI
Eric Dutram: ALPS, the small ETF issuer best known for its commodity products, appears to be continuing its expansion in the U.S. sector market with its newest fund. The brand new product, the Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (NYSEARCA:SDOG), Read more…
NYSE:SDOG, NYSE:SDY, PEY
Michael Johnston: As we approach the midway point of 2012, the ETF industry has continued the brisk pace of expansion set in previous years. There are now close to 1,500 exchange-traded products available to U.S. investors, with new funds launching on a regular basis. Read more…
NYSE:SPY
Eric Dutram: The latest company to take advantage of Exchange-Traded Concept’s ‘turnkey’ ETF service appears to be Milwaukee-based AlphaClone. The company recently launched a new product that is the first Read more…
NYSE:ALFA, NYSE:MCRO, QAI
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets appear to have regained their footing after enduring a rather painful correction over the past few weeks. Confidence has returned to the markets thanks to growing Read more…
NASDAQ:ZDIV, NASDAQ:ZMLP, NYSE:AMLP, NYSE:MLPA, NYSE:YMLP
Eric Dutram: After a spring lull, the ETF world appears to be revving up on the product development front in the summer months as a flurry of new funds have hit the market as of late. In the latest launch for the New York-based issuer Global X, the company Read more…
NYSE:GURU
Scott’s Investments: AlphaClone launched their first ETF, the AlphaClone Alternative Alpha ETF (NYSEARCA:ALFA), which began trading on May 31st. Read more…
NYSE:ALFA
Michael Johnston: ArrowShares has made its first plunge into the ETF industry, announcing the launch of an ETF that targets high yielding securities in a number of different asset classes. The new Dow Jones Global Yield ETF Read more…
NYSE:AMLP, NYSE:GYLD, NYSE:MLPA
Michael Johnston: State Street, one of the largest ETF issuers by total assets, has thrown its hat into the active ETF ring with the launch of three multi-asset class products. The new ETFs, each of which Read more…
NYSE:GAL, NYSE:INKM, NYSE:RLY
Michael Johnston: United States Commodity Funds rolled out another addition to its suite of “third generation” commodity ETPs this week, debuting a fund that will take a unique approach to delivering Read more…
NYSE:CPER, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:USAG, NYSE:USCI
Michael Johnston: Direxion, one of the largest issuers of leveraged and inverse ETFs, announced the addition of a non-leveraged ETF this week that will offer a unique way to access one of the world’s most widely-followed benchmarks. The new NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares Read more…
NYSE:QQQE, QQQ, RSP
Michael Johnston: Van Eck, the firm that rolled out the first Indonesia ETF a little more than three years ago, introduced a complementary ETF today that will target small cap stocks in the emerging Asian economy. The Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:IDXJ) began trading on the NYSE Read more…
NYSE:BRF, NYSE:EEM, NYSE:EIDO, NYSE:IDXJ, NYSE:RSXJ
Michael Johnston: Russell rolled out two more products to add to its rapidly expanding suite of ETFs this week, launching two funds that specifically target stocks with high dividend yields. The Russell High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEARCA:HDIV) will target components of the Russell 1000 that exhibit Read more…
NYSE:DIVS, NYSE:HDIV
Ron Rowland: January’s new ETF activity hit the highest level in seven months. After ten days of no introductions, the pace jumped to more than one a day with 23 launches in the last 21 calendar days of the month. So far the new rollouts have been limited to ETFs rather than ETNs. Month-end totals Read more…
NYSE:DIA, NYSE:IWM, NYSE:SPY
Michael Johnston: iShares, the ETF market leader in the U.S. with more than 200 individual funds across virtually every asset class, will notch another first for the industry later this month when it Read more…
NYSE:EWHS, NYSE:EWSS, NYSE:EWU, NYSE:GERJ, NYSE:GXF, NYSE:SCIN
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