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Michael Johnston: PowerShares, one of the leading providers of alternative weighted ETFs, announced today the latest addition to its fixed income lineup. The new Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio (NYSE:PFIG) will offer an alternative means of accessing high quality corporate bonds Read more…
Innovation has become a hallmark of the ETF industry in recent years, as new and existing issuers alike have have rolled out increasingly complex and creative products that have further expanded the universe of asset classes and investment strategies available through exchange-traded products. Read more…
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Ron Rowland: Can a passive index fund accurately track its index when it has only one holding for every 423 holdings of the underlying index? Last week (4/14/11), State Street Global Advisors Read more…
ProShares will begin trading its new “ProShares Ultra Investment Grade Corporate ETF” (NYSE:IGU) Thursday April, 14 2011. ProShares Ultra Investment Grade Corporate (the “Fund”) seeks investment results for a single day only, not for longer periods. This means that the return of the Fund Read more…
ProShares will begin trading its new “ProShares Ultra High Yield ETF” (NYSE:UJB) Thursday April, 14 2011. The ProShares Ultra High Yield (the “Fund”) seeks investment results for a single day only, not for longer periods. This means that the return of the Fund for a period longer than a single Read more…
State Street Global Advisors launched the SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE:CBND) on Thursday (4/7/11). The underlying benchmark index intends to measure the Read more…
Innovation continues to be a defining characteristic of the quickly growing fixed income ETF space, as evidenced by the launch of the SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond ETF Read more…
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA)*, the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), today announced the launch of the SPDR® Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) (NYSE:CBND). The new ETF provides access to a new corporate Read more…
State Street began trading its new “SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond ETF” (NYSE:CBND) this morning. The SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond ETF seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield Read more…
State Street will begin trading its new “SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond ETF” (NYSE:CBND) Thursday April, 7 2011. The SPDR Barclays Capital Issuer Scored Corporate Bond ETF (the “Fund”) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond Read more…
April was somewhat of a calming month for markets, as geopolitical concerns took a back seat to earnings reports and a relatively uneventful Federal Reserve meeting. This month saw two of the 
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