In the latest development in the ETF industry, Emerging Global Advisors LLC last week launched two new ETFs that track specific sectors in emerging markets. The new funds are based on the Dow Jones Emerging Markets Sector Titans indices. The two new funds are: [click to continue…]
It’s been another exciting week in the world of ETFs. Here are the ETF Database staff picks of the week’s most important and interesting stories from around the Web.
As a result of the seemingly endless decline in the U.S. housing market (we’re nearing the three year mark for the current downturn), most real estate ETFs on the market have been posted huge losses since 2007, with many still down more than 50% from their record highs despite recent rallies. But as any shrewd investor [...]
With uncertainty and risk aversion dominating investor psychology in the first quarter of the year, gold ETFs have benefited, increasing dramatically in the first three months of 2009. According to the World Gold Council, investments in gold ETFs increased to $13.58 billion in the first quarter, representing more than six times the amount held in [...]
Dean Popplewell has a wealth of Forex experience: professional currency trader for 10 years, fixed income trader for four years, and head of the global trading desks at various financial institutions in Canada. He is now OANDA‘s resident currency analyst, and has been writing OANDA’s daily Forex blog since January 2007. Mr. Popplewell was gracious [...]
Over the past month, India conducted the world’s largest exercise in democracy, sending more than 445 million voters filed into some 828,000 polling places to elect 543 candidates to the lower house of the country’s parliament. After more than a month of voting, results were recently announced by the Election Commission. The winners: the Indian [...]
Perhaps you’ve noticed that many of the investment vehicles in the ETF industry are technically referred to as exchange-traded notes, or ETNs. While ETNs are similar to ETFs in many ways, there are also some key differences that should be considered before investing.
As reported last week, Barclays recently filed to launch multiple iShares actively-managed ETFs. While few details were originally available regarding the investment strategies these new ETFs would utilize, a prospectus filed with the SEC late last week has shed some light on the proposed funds.
As the ETF industry has exploded and investors have poured cash from traditional mutual funds into these investments, a number of interesting ETFs have popped up attempting to establish market share. One interesting sector consists of socially responsible ETFs, which generally invest in companies with positive and ethical environmental and social policies. These funds will often avoid companies [...]
Van Eck Global launched the first Brazilian small-cap ETF available to investors this week. The new ETF, which is traded on the NYSE Arca Exchange under the ticker BRF, seeks to replicate the performance of the Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap Index. According to Van Eck, BRF will invest in Brazilian companies with a market capitalization between [...]
Exchange traded funds represent one of the fastest growing investments available today. While ETFs are a relatively new investment vehicle, they are growing in popularity due to their relative simplicity, built-in diversity and low costs. There are many who see advantages in ETFs, since they are not only well-suited for long-term, buy and hold investing, [...]
