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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: [click to continue…]
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Asia Pacific ETFs posted big gains on Thursday following the release of updated growth projections from the International Monetary Fund that included upward revisions for the region for both this year and next. The region as a whole – including Japan, Australia, and New Zealand – is expected to grow by 2.8% for 2009 and 5.8% in 2010, about 1.5% more than the organization had projected in its previous May report. [click to continue…]
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India ETFs, which have already enjoyed tremendous gains this year following well-received election results in May, surged again on Monday, this time as a result of several landmark agreements sealed during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first visit to the South Asian nation. While disputes over how to address climate change have cast a [...]
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Even the most vocal supporters of passive management and indexing have to admit that certain investor track records are far too stellar to attribute entirely to luck. While I’ve frequently disparaged the concept of active investing, I’m still eager to hear what trends legendary investors are following. The Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman recently compiled some [...]
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Earlier this year, India conducted one of the world’s largest exercises in democracy when more than 710 million citizens headed to the polls to complete general elections. Following the announcement of the results, several India ETFs (such as PIN, INP, and EPI) surged more than 20% in a single session on news that the Indian National [...]
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With a roller coaster six months behind us that saw no shortage of interesting twists and turns and unsuspected headlines, we’ve finally reached the midway point of 2009. Ahead of us is the highly anticipated “second half of 2009,” which for months we’ve heard will hold returns to growth, a recovering economy, and enough green [...]
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One of the bright spots in the first half of the year has been the Indian ETFs, which surged last month when the Indian National Congress (INC) party won enough votes to form a government in Delhi without allies for the first time since the 1960s. Election of a party generally viewed as pro-business, as well [...]
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Over the past month, India conducted the world’s largest exercise in democracy, sending more than 445 million voters filed into some 828,000 polling places to elect 543 candidates to the lower house of the country’s parliament. After more than a month of voting, results were recently announced by the Election Commission. The winners: the Indian [...]
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Perhaps you’ve noticed that many of the investment vehicles in the ETF industry are technically referred to as exchange-traded notes, or ETNs. While ETNs are similar to ETFs in many ways, there are also some key differences that should be considered before investing.
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