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IndexIQ, the Rye Brook, New York-based issuer who burst on to the scene with the launch of the first hedge fund ETFs in 2009, announced this week that it would make zero capital gains distributions for all five of its funds. IndexIQ has found a sizable market for its hedge fund replication ETFs (QAI has more than $75 million in assets) in part because of the numerous advantages these funds offer relative to traditional hedge funds. [click to continue…]
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San Francisco-based iShares, the market leader with more than 185 U.S. listed ETFs, announced on Monday the launch of its latest product, the iShares Diversified Alternatives Trust. Unlike most iShares products that seek to track the performance of an underlying benchmark, the Diversified Alternatives Trust seeks to maximize absolute returns from investments with historically low correlations to traditional asset classes. The new product will trade on the NYSE Arca Exchange under the ticker ALT and charge an expense ratio of 0.95%. [click to continue…]
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IndexIQ, the New York-based developer of alternative indexes and exchange-traded funds, has taken the first step towards launching a 130/30 ETF, filing a 40-APP application with the SEC earlier this week. IndexIQ currently maintains the IQ 130/30 Index, a rules-based benchmark that employs fundamental factors to select U.S. stocks with a long exposure of 130% [...]
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Having been given the option, the vast majority of investors in storied hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management have opted to liquidate their holdings, rather than roll over their investments to a new Cerberus fund. The development is a blow to fund manager Stephen Feinberg, and on a higher level, to the hedge fund industry as [...]
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ProShares, known for introducing leveraged ETFs and inverse leveraged ETFs to the market in 2006, has introduced another unique style of fund, launching the ProShares Credit Suisse 130/30 ETF (CSM). CSM, which began trading on the NYSE Arca Exchange on Tuesday, is the first ETF on the market to follow a 130/30 strategy. The ETF seeks to track the Credit [...]
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Over the last two years, equity markets have cratered, volatility has skyrocketed, and retirement portfolios have been crushed under the weight of a global recession and seemingly unending uncertainty. But over this period, the ETF industry has enjoyed astonishing success, attracting billions of dollars away from traditional mutual funds and redefining the business of long-term [...]
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As the ETF industry expanded over the last several years, the market quickly became saturated with funds tracking traditional equity, fixed income, and commodity benchmarks. Once the major indexes had been covered (and in many cases recovered), ETF issuers began getting more creative, launching funds in unique niches of the market, hoping to establish themselves as [...]
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With an astounding rate of hedge fund closures coinciding with the introduction of hedge fund ETFs to the market, I wrote last week that we may see a gradual changing of the guard in the industry. I might have been wrong. It might not be so gradual. Over the last week, several new niche hedge fund [...]
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The extent of the damage done by the current recession may not be fully known for years, but already a number of the hardest-hit industries are evident. The U.S. banking sector will never be the same. The domestic automotive industry has been dealt potentially fatal blows (perhaps taking the state of Michigan with it). Real [...]
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On paper, the hedge fund industry is one ripe for a challenge from the ETF industry. Hedge funds have high manager risk, and were previously out of reach for many investors due to high minimum investment requirements and exorbitant fees. Enter the hedge fund ETF.
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