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ETFs For Planes, Trains, And Automobiles

Michael Johnston — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:00:44 +0000

As the number of exchange-traded funds continues to multiply, investors have the ability to achieve increasingly granular exposure to narrow segments of the global economy. This development has worked out quite nicely for investors who utilize a “core and explore” strategy that calls for the bulk of exposure to be held in broad, plain vanilla stock and bond funds with smaller weights assigned to more targeted asset sub-classes that are deemed to be potential sources of alpha. The innovation in the ETF industry has given investors tools for tapping into incredibly targeted corners of the market, ranging from producers of solid state drive technology to smartphone manufacturers to platinum miners. It’s also created an opportunity to tap into the “transportation sector,” a term that can loosely be used to cover companies whose operations focus around moving people and things between places. Below, we profile a few ETFs covering everything from [...]

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FLYX Permanently Grounded: Direxion Shuts Down Airline ETF

Eric Dutram — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:00:07 +0000

Direxion, the company best known for its suite of leveraged and inverse ETFs, began the process of shutting down one of its few non-leveraged funds, the Airlines Shares ETF (FLYX) earlier this week, citing a lack of assets as the main culprit for the fund’s demise. The fund stopped trading on October 10th and over the next week the product will liquidate its portfolio of airline stocks before paying out to investors after that. The fund never really caught on with investors as the product had assets of less than $3 million and saw volume of roughly 800 shares a day over the past three months. Furthermore, at a 0.55% expense ratio, the product only generated a meager $16,500 for the company in fees, hardly enough to turn a profit for the ETF issuer. Thanks to this move, Direxion doesn’t have a single non-leveraged or inverse product in its lineup, suggesting [...]

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Tuesday’s ETF To Watch: Guggenheim Airline ETF (FAA)

Eric Dutram — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:00:15 +0000

The new quarter started on a down note across the board, as more fears over Greece and concerns over a hard landing in China weighed on markets. The losses were pretty significant in most sectors although the worst of it was contained to the financial and basic materials corners of the market. Beyond these two sectors, one segment of the transportation industry, airlines, was also crushed on the day, this despite the continued slide in oil prices which usually benefits these crude-intensive firms. While worries over Europe and global growth certainly weighed on the airlines, yesterday’s fall was undoubtedly thanks to rumors of bankruptcy at American Airlines (AMR). Rumors of AMR’s possibly bankruptcy quickly swept through the markets in Monday’s trading session leading to a cataclysmic day for shareholders in the firm. In fact, at one point in Monday’s trading, AMR shares were down close to 40% at one point [...]

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Time To Buy The Airline ETFs?

Eric Dutram — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:45:07 +0000

Although Hurricane Irene wasn’t nearly as devastating as some had feared, the storm did knock out power to millions and ground thousands of flights across the Northeast. Yet, the worst of the storm now appears to be over as flights are returning to the skies in major airports in New York, Washington D.C., and Boston, suggesting that the revenues lost to the airline industry could be much less than some had expected [see Three ETFs To Monitor As Hurricane Irene Wreaks Havoc]. In fact, major airline stocks such as Delta, American Airlines, and United-Continental were all up significantly in the first two days of the week, with AMR leading the way higher with a nearly 9% gain. These solid gains are in sharp contrast to earlier in the month when airlines stocks were slumping across the board including double-digit plunges through the first eight days of August. This includes a nearly 20% [...]

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Three ETFs To Monitor As Hurricane Irene Wreaks Havoc

Jared Cummans — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:30:30 +0000

Though most investors will be focused on comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and our U.S. GDP results, there will be another name to remember as we head into the weekend; Irene. Now that we are midway through hurricane season, which lasts from the beginning of June through the end of November, the U.S. has its first major storm system working its way through the Eastern coastline, threatening millions of citizens along the densely populated Northeast. Numerous areas have already instated a mandatory evacuation in order to protect citizens from what is predicted to be severe flooding as well as intense wind. [see also Five ETFs To Watch Ahead Of Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole Speech]. Irene has been causing quite the fuss over the last few days, as it is exhibiting an atypical pattern. Often, a hurricane will be fast moving as it reaches up into higher latitudes, but Irene [...]

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Three ETFs To Watch This Week: GLD, FAA, FXE

Eric Dutram — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:00:14 +0000

This past week was a pretty poor one for markets as a number of solid earnings reports were not enough to shake fears of a U.S. debt default. Republicans and Democrats remained deadlocked over how best to reign in spending and raise the ceiling ahead of the August second deadline, sending much of Wall Street into a panic in the second half of the week. Beyond these concerns, traders also fretted about an extremely weak figure on the factory orders front and a equally gloomy report from the Fed’s Beige Book report. Meanwhile, in commodity markets, oil trended lower on the week as fears over demand increased, especially after the U.S. released its GDP report which showed growth of just 1.3% for the most recent quarter. However, the uncertainty both in the U.S. and Europe helped to make it another solid period for the yellow metal as gold stayed above the [...]

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May ETFdb Category Kings: Best Performing ETFs

Michael Johnston — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:00:43 +0000

The month of May was a generally disappointing stretch for investors, as both international and domestic equity markets struggled to overcome obstacles new and old. Commodities, which had been a nice source of absolute returns for much of the last year, fell on hard times as well; precious metals went into a brief freefall, and most other natural resources saw price declines as well. May demonstrated the importance of a meaningful allocation to fixed income within any long-term portfolio, as most bond ETFs turned in nice gains during the month. The following tables highlight the best performers from each ETFdb Category during the month of May [ETFdb Pro members can download spreadsheets showing performance and expense data for the entire ETF universe]. Equity ETFs Though most equity ETFs finished May in negative territory, there were a handful of bright spots among the hundreds of ETFs that slice and dice the [...]

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Three ETFs To Watch This Week: IDX, BBH, FAA

Eric Dutram — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:00:17 +0000

This past week marked the start to earnings season, and for the most part the reports disappointed investors and sparked sell-offs. One of the most important reports to hit the market this week came from banking giant JP Morgan. The firm reported a huge profit increase of 67% but sluggish revenues and little revenue growth kept the company’s stock in check. The banking sector was also hit by news of a brewing scandal involving several of the country’s largest banks and the possibility that they illegally influenced one of the world’s key interest rates, LIBOR. Thanks to this, markets hit their lows for the week on Thursday as these fears combined with weakness in the unemployment claims department to rekindle investor pessimism. However, thanks to some good news late Thursday and early Friday, some sectors of the economy managed to bounce back and put U.S. equities on a more solid [...]

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Checking In On The Airline ETFs: FAA vs. FLYX

Jared Cummans — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:00:50 +0000

Exchange-traded products were first introduced over two decades ago to give investors alternative options to high cost mutual funds. Since then, the industry has grown exponentially, with assets now over $1 trillion, and the total number of ETPs on the market eclipsing the 1,100 mark with new funds debuting all the time. But now that ETFs have taken all of the largest and most popular slices of the market, many have begun to compete with each other for dominance in very specific niches [try our free ETF Stock Exposure Tool here]. The competition was largely initiated by Vanguard funds, who began releasing ETFs with similar exposure to popular, established products, but with much lower costs. The most prevalent example of this is Vanguard‘s VWO, versus the iShares EEM. Both ETFs track the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, but EEM was on market for quite some time before VWO was introduced. VWO [...]

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Best ETF Performers Of 2010: Winners For Every ETFdb Category

Michael Johnston — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:00:23 +0000

Last year was a good year for most asset classes, as investor portfolios continued to recover from the recent recession. The difference in performance between many comparable funds was significant, and many of the best performers of 2010 are relatively small funds that maintain considerably smaller asset bases than their more popular competitors. Below, we profiled the top performing ETFs in more than 60 ETFdb Categories covering all major asset classes. ETFs that launched in 2010 were excluded, as were those that stopped trading during the year [for more ETF insights, sign up for our free ETF newsletter]: Equity ETFs Many equity ETFs turned impressive performances in 2010; below, we profile the best of the best: All Cap Equities: The First Trust Multi CG AlphaDex (FAD) added 25.2% last year, besting the more popular VTI (up 17.4%) and IWV (up 16.8%) by a wide margin. Large Cap Blend Equities: The [...]

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