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Why You Need a Preferred Stock ETF

Jared Cummans — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:00:09 +0000

With interest rates frozen at near-zero levels for the next two years, investors have been scrambling to find sources of income for their portfolios. As such, dividend investing has become increasingly popular in the past few years, as investors have been quick to adopt the benefits offered by securities that pay out a steady cash distribution. Though some go for bonds and others may hone in on a particular equity sector, preferred shares represent one of the most enticing plays in today’s environment [see also 25 Things Every Financial Advisor Should Know About Commodities]. Preferred stock represents a unique class of ownership that has a higher claim on the assets and cash flow than common stock, meaning preferred shareholders will generally receive a dividend that must be paid out before dividends to common stockholders. The higher priority on the pecking order for dividends makes preferreds especially enticing, not to mention that their [...]

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22 ETF Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter

Michael Johnston — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:31 +0000

The ETF corner of the Twitterverse represents the crossroads of perhaps two of the hottest trends of the past five years. ETFs have burst onto the investing scene as tools for accomplishing a growing range of objectives, while social media has emerged as a tremendously powerful tool for staying up to date on just about everything. For financial advisors and retail investors looking to stay current and further their ETF education, there are a number of great free resources out there. Below are 22 follow-worthy ETF experts, analysts, and issuers; if you sign up to follow these folks, you’ll have no shortage of entertaining, insightful reading. 1. ETFTrends (@ETFtrends) ETFtrends.com was registered as a domain June 19th, 2005 at a time when the ETF industry as a whole had less than $500 billion. The site is the brainchild of Tom Lydon (@tomlydon), a savvy money manager who coordinates the site and his [...]

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Van Eck Debuts Proprietary Indexes, Barclays Drops “Capital”

Stoyan Bojinov — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:39 +0000

Volatility has returned to Wall Street as the political gridlock in Greece has re-focused investors’ attention on the looming debt crisis overseas. With economic uncertainties spilling over on the home front, investors have also been prompted to reevaluate the health of the domestic recovery, which according to the latest Fed minutes is still sluggish at best. Amidst the flurry of trading on Wall Street, activity on the product development front has been quiet as no new ETFs launched this week [see also 12 High-Yielding Monthly Distribution Bond ETFs]. With no new ETF filings as well, below we take a look at some noteworthy headlines from around the industry [see also 3 ETF Trading Tips You Are Missing]: Van Eck Launches New Indexes New York-based industry veteran Van Eck continues to expand its lineup of indexes with its most recent launch of four proprietary benchmarks. This release showcases Van Eck’s self-indexing approach, [...]

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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The ETF Galaxy

Michael Johnston — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:23 +0000

At times, it seems as if the number of ETFs available to U.S. investors will soon exceed the number of stars in the sky. That might be overstating things a bit, but the pace of expansion in the ETF industry has truly been impressive over the last several years. With multiple products seemingly debuting every week and very few shutting down (despite countless predictions to the contrary), the size of the ETF lineup has effectively doubled in a relatively short period of time. And there’s no indication that the product development front is going to be slowing down any time soon; issuers continue to file for both innovative and duplicative products, producing a pipeline full of hundreds of funds that could debut at some point in the next several months [see also 3 ETFs For A Euro Zone Double-Dip]. The proliferation of ETFs, ETNs, and other exchange-traded cousins of these [...]

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When An ETF Distribution Isn’t A Dividend: Explaining Capital Gains

Jared Cummans — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:00:33 +0000

Income investing has become particularly popular in recent years, as near-zero interest rates have left many starved for attractive yields. As such, many investors turned to equity ETFs paying out high dividends to find a stable source of income. But looking through past distributions and current yield metrics is not always the most accurate method for evaluating an ETF’s yield, as there are several nuances to these products that need to be taken into account, including capital gains [see also 12 High-Yielding Commodities For 2012]. Capital Gains Though the exchange-traded structure helps these products to avoid incur capital gains far less frequently than mutual funds, a number of ETFs incur capital gains through out the year, which will ultimately lead to high distributions to investors. The shareholders of the ETF, like you, will be responsible for paying the taxes on these capital gains, the same as you would if you had sold [...]

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5 ETF Experts You Need To Follow On Twitter

Jared Cummans — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:00:46 +0000

Social media has quickly become an essential part of our society. These mediums are not only used for personal reasons, but they serve an important purpose in the business world, as a number of companies have taken to these sites to help grow their product. That being said, it can be easy to fall behind the curve on popular sites like Twitter, which utilizes a public update system that allows users to see “tweets” of up to 140 characters from some of their favorite experts [see also Facebook and The Social Media ETF (SOCL)]. When it comes to the importance of Twitter, the ETF industry is no exception. There are a number of people and institutions that can help you stay ahead of the curve when it comes to ETF investing, as their tweets can provide concise but vital information on the industry. Below, we outline five must-follows on Twitter [...]

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ETF Investors: What’s In Your Index?

Michael Johnston — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:00:56 +0000

It wasn’t that long ago that indexes were used almost exclusively as performance benchmarks and barometers for stock market performance, most visible as a summary of recent activity on the evening news on in the business section of the morning paper. But over the past several years, the rise of indexing strategies and ETFs has transformed indexes into investable assets with hundreds of billions of dollars seeking to replicate these strategies. As indexes have become more widely replicated, the indexing industry has evolved rapidly. Gone are the days when there were only a handful of benchmarks; there are now hundreds of thousands of indexes that slice and dice global stock markets in almost every conceivable way. Indexes that employ unique weighting methodologies as alternatives to market cap weighting have garnered significant attention in recent years, emerging as new tools for tapping into traditional asset classes. Meanwhile, index providers have also [...]

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5 ETFs For The Earnings Bull

Jared Cummans — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:00:06 +0000

Though the second quarter has gotten off to a rocky, investors are turning their eyes to earnings season to continue the bull run that has defined 2012. The past few days have seen markets all over the board, as Alcoa kicked off earnings season with a bang, leading many investors to muster up optimism for the coming few weeks. Q1 of this year was the strongest opening quarter in nearly 14 years, but many feel that the good times are just about over, and that markets are due for a steep correction sooner or later. But with one of the strongest three-month spans in recent history, earnings season figures to continue the high momentum, as a number of companies likely enjoyed a strong quarter [see Free Report: Seven Simple & Cheap ETF Model Portfolios]. For those who feel that recent stock market gains will translate into positive earnings, the next few weeks [...]

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5 New, Noteworthy ETFs From Q1

Daniela Pylypczak — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:00:46 +0000

Q1 of 2012 is officially on the books and the ETF industry is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. So far this year, investors have been introduced to some of the most intriguing products to have hit the markets, beefing up the list of more than 1,400 ETFs to chose from. As issuers continue to roll out new funds, investors now have access to even more ways to accomplish their investment objectives. Whether you’re looking to gain access to one of the world’s most followed mutual funds or want to establish a tactical tilt towards a specific sector of the corporate bond market, we outline 5 new, noteworthy ETFs of 2012′s first quarter [see also 4 sector ETFs Up Over 20% YTD]: WisdomTree Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Fund (EMCB) WisdomTree‘s new fund gives investors access to not one, but two potentially lucrative segments of the market: emerging markets [...]

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FocusShares Turns One Year Old

Michael Johnston — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:40:34 +0000

The FocusShares lineup of ETFs hit its one year milestone this week, marking the anniversary of the launch of 15 products focusing on U.S. equities. When FocusShares made its entrance 12 months ago, it marked the latest development in an ongoing “price war” in the ETF industry; many of the FocusShares ETFs launched as the cheapest options available for the exposure offered, and the availability commission free at one of the largest online brokerages gave investors another option for reducing overall fees. Twelve of the 15 FocusShares ETF posted positive returns in their first year of operations, led by the Morningstar Consumer Defensive Index ETF (FCD) with a gain of almost 17%. The Focus Morningstar Large Cap Index ETF (FLG) outperformed the S&P 500 by about 100 basis points in its first year [see also Under The Hood Of FocusShares: Q&A With Kris Wallace & Erik Liik]. Best Kept ETF [...]

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