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The SPDR S&P Russia ETF (RBL) began trading on Thursday, becoming just the second U.S.-listed ETF offering exposure to one of the world’s largest countries and most unique economies. RBL will seek to track the performance of the S&P Russia Capped BMI Index, a float adjusted market cap-weighted benchmark consisting of publicly-traded companies domiciled in Russia. [click to continue…]
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To this point in 2010, investors around the globe have paid close attention to every development in the euro zone, as crumbling public finances in the region have threatened to spark a wave of crippling defaults and have called into question the sustainability of the common currency. Most of the attention has focused on Greece, where a skyrocketing public deficit has set the stage for a downgrade of sovereign debt to below investment grade. [click to continue…]
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Each month, our team of ETF experts publishes actionable investment ideas in ETF Edge, our all-ETF newsletter. To see the rest of this month’s recommendations, including an international fixed income ETF and a China sector fund, sign up for a free trial of ETFdb Pro. In addition to the monthly newsletter, Pro subscribers get access [...]
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Last year saw more than 100 new product launches, ranging from plain vanilla equity and bond funds to ETFs offering exposure to exotic new investment strategies and asset classes previously available only to a limited slice of the investing community. The innovation that has made ETFs a popular alternative to mutual funds seems ready to [...]
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The tremendous increase in the number of ETFs launched in recent years has seemingly brought cheap, efficient access to nearly every corner of the globe within reach of U.S. investors. There are now funds devoted to Vietnam, Turkey, Israel, Colombia, among countless others. But while the breadth of international options has expanded significantly, the exposure [...]
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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 [...]
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As the ETF industry has continued its rapid expansion, there has been much debate surrounding the sustainability of the current growth and the potential saturation of the market. The first ETFs were relatively simple products, offering exposure to the world’s most widely-followed equity benchmarks. But the last ten years have seen hundreds of new ETFs [...]
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Van Eck, the New York-based ETF issuer known for its hard assets and targeted international funds, has filed for a new ETF focusing on small cap stocks in Latin America. The Latin America Small-Cap ETF (LATM) would track the Market Vectors LatAm Small-Cap Index, a modified cap-weighted benchmark designed to track the performance of publicly-traded [...]
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Emerging Global Advisors, the New York-based ETF issuer that earlier this year pioneered sector-specific emerging markets funds, has filed a prospectus with the SEC for seven additional ETFs. The proposed funds include the first sector- and country-specific international funds, as well as the first ETFs to target mid-cap stocks in emerging market economies:
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Over the last two years, a slew of financial and economic crises have caused many U.S. investors to reexamine traditional asset allocation strategies that put the vast majority of their assets into U.S.-listed securities. As these investors have looked to move beyond their borders, Brazil has been one of the most popular destinations, identified as [...]
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Wednesday was a wild day for U.S. and global equity markets, with huge losses for most major benchmarks that conjured up images of late 2008, when seemingly every day saw a triple digit swing in the Dow. The ETFdb 60 Index, a benchmark that measures the performance of the universe of investable assets available through [...]
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On Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicagoans watched in stunned silence as the Second City, long thought to be the overwhelming favorite to be awarded the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, was the first city to be eliminated from contention.
Chicago’s loss turned out to be Rio de Janeiro’s gain. The Brazilian city beat out [...]
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