ProShares, the Bethesda, Maryland-based ETF issuer best known for its suite of leveraged and inverse products, announced plans to expand its offering in the Treasury bond space with its latest SEC filing. In the document, the company detailed four new funds that are vastly different from anything else in the market, giving investors new ways to play inflation with government bonds. If approved, the new funds would help push ProShares above the 125 fund mark and would greatly expand the company’s lineup of Treasury-focused ETFs. Although a number of important details were not released in this initial filing, expense ratios and ticker symbols are still unavailable, we offer up some of the key points from the release below: [click to continue…]
Debt ceilings, downgrades, and sell-offs of epic proportions have combined to make the last few weeks a major headache for investors. With the outlook of the U.S. economy changing drastically, many are unsure of where place their assets. Starting with the debt deal that took longer than expected to pass, markets reacted poorly to the [...]
First Trust, the firm behind the recently-launched Cloud Computing Index Fund (SKYY) has filed details on an ETF focused on another popular theme: inflation. A recent SEC filing detailed the First Trust Inflation Managed Fund, a product that would maintain a primary investment objective of “long-term capital appreciation” and secondary objective of current income. The [...]
Inflation has been a particularly frustrating topic in recent months. Despite widespread predictions for a surge in CPI in the wake of unprecedented injections of liquidity into global financial markets, upward pressure on prices has not yet materialized–at least not in many developed markets. The prospect of what seems to be an inevitable outcome has [...]
WisdomTree rolled out a new ETF designed to deliver a comprehensive approach to combating inflation on Thursday, debuting the Real Return Fund (RRF). The actively-managed ETF will take a unique approach to delivering total returns that outpace the rate of inflation, going beyond many of the more simplistic strategies that may have limited effectiveness when [...]
The past week was a relatively quiet one in the ETF industry in terms of new product launches, with just three new ETFs debuting, First Trust kicked off and capped the activity, debuting the first car ETF on Tuesday and rolling out another addition to its AlphaDEX suite later in the week; those launches sandwiched [...]
The ETP lineup now consists of nearly 1,200 individual products with aggregate assets of well more than $1 trillion. And both of those numbers continue to expand at an impressive rate; new ETFs are launched seemingly on a daily basis, while cash continues to flow out of traditional mutual funds and into exchange-traded products.
The dawn of the second quarter of 2011 has seemingly brought a fresh round of momentum to the active ETF space, as the logjam at the SEC has been broken–at least initially–and some major names in both the ETF and mutual fund space have inched closer towards rolling out actively-managed ETFs. State Street, the issuer [...]
WisdomTree, the New York City-based ETF issuer best known for its lineup of dividend focused funds, revealed continued expansion beyond this space with a filing for a new ETF. The proposed fund seeks to offer investors a real rate of return over inflation regardless of market conditions. This will potentially be accomplished by investing in [...]
After announcing the acquisition of Reno-based U.S. One last month, Russell has wasted little time utilizing its new-found flexibility to beef up its already hefty product pipeline. U.S. One Trust recently disclosed plans to the SEC for three new Russell ETFs, each of which would be structured as a fund-of-funds. The proposed ETFs include:
It’s baaaaaaaack. After a brief hiatus that saw investors rushing to determine the best ways to battle deflation, inflationary concerns have begun to surface again. The cause of the latest bout of inflationary anxiety is of course the QE2 program recently announced by the Federal Reserve that calls for the purchase of hundreds of billions [...]
