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Todd Shriber: I’m willing to bet if you been following financial markets for the past year or two, you’re acutely aware that investing in U.S.-government bonds really isn’t worth the trouble. I’m not going to bore you with all the tired scare tactics that we’ve been seeing all too much lately. You know what I mean. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets have taken investors for a wild ride over the past three months with chaotic trading dominating virtually every nook and corner of Wall Street. Amidst the volatility, investors have been seeking out refuge and fleeing to “safer” asset classes; although rational, this approach inevitability Read more…
Matt Tucker: A decade ago, buying a local currency emerging market (EM) bond fund would have been nearly impossible. In the “old” days emerging market governments primarily issued bonds that were denominated in foreign currencies, like US dollars, Japanese Yen or Euros, when they wanted to raise capital. Read more…
Michael Johnston: Van Eck, one of the pioneers of ETFs offering exposure to international bond markets, has laid the groundwork for what would be yet another first-of-its-kind fixed income fund. In a recent SEC filing, the company detailed plans for the Market Vectors European Read more…
Actively-managed ETFs have been all the rage so far this year as a number of issuers have thrown their hats into the increasingly competitive ring. One person who offered up some insight on this rapidly changing market was Tom Graves, CFA, who is an Equity Analyst at Standard & Poor’s. Read more…
The fixed income corner of the ETF industry has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, as investors have become increasingly comfortable with achieving bond exposure through the exchange-traded structure. In 2010 more than $26 billion flowed into bond ETFs, following a year Read more…
NYSE:ALD, NYSE:BWX, NYSE:ELD, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:EMLC, NYSE:WIP, PCY
The past few weeks have been a relatively slow stretch for the ETF industry–at least in terms of product development. Since EGShares rolled out a suite of sector-specific emerging markets ETFs on June 23, only two new products have hit the market: the S&P 500 Crude Oil Linked ETN Read more…
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WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg thinks that investors are becoming more interested in emerging-markets sovereign debt because those nations are displaying better fiscal discipline than developed Read more…
David Fry: With yields low, investors seeking income are tempted to seek yield in other sectors where real rates of return after inflation can be found. Higher yields have traditionally been found Read more…
NYSE:ALD, NYSE:ELD, NYSE:EMB, NYSE:HYG, NYSE:HYLD, NYSE:JNK, PCY, PHB
While many of the “first generation” of ETFs offered exposure to widely-followed equity indexes, the universe of exchange-traded products has expanded at a tremendous pace in recent years to Read more…
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When discussing the various vehicles available for accessing a certain asset class or strategy, it isn’t uncommon to hear advisors or investors discuss the comparisons of “ETFs vs. active management” Read more…
Dan Weiskopf, a Principal at Global ETF Strategies, manages ETF portfolios for clients and has been doing so since 2004. Recently we sat down with him in order to get his thoughts on inflation and Read more…
WisdomTree, the New York-based firm behind more than 45 ETFs, reported first quarter net income of $0.2 million, the first profitable quarter for the publicly-traded ETF 
The deep freeze that has kept more than a dozen of would-be issuers of active ETFs from entering into the space seems to be thawing a bit; shortly after iShares received the green light from the 
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