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Friday’s ETF Chart To Watch: iShares Russell 3000 (IWV)

Stoyan Bojinov — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:36 +0000

Stocks drifted sideways on Thursday as investors were glad to see a better-than-expected jobless claims report, but held off from jumping into the market ahead of today’s pivotal unemployment data. Confidence in the recovery improved as Ben Bernanke testified before Congers, while the latest jobless claims report showed that 367,000 people filed for unemployment, versus the expected 370,000, and also better than the previous reading of 379,000. On the home front, the Nasdaq led the way higher, gaining 0.40% on the day, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged behind, shedding 0.09%. Gold soared as investors got on the defensive ahead of today’s unemployment number; futures prices for the precious yellow metal settled near $1,760 an ounce [see Five New Features On ETFdb.com]. Investors will turn their attention to the latest unemployment rate data later today as the opening bell on Wall Street rings. In light of this key economic [...]

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10 Most Useful New ETFs Of 2011 (For Buy-And-Hold Investors)

Jared Cummans — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:00:45 +0000

This past year was the most active ever for the exchange traded industry in terms of product development; the launch of more than 300 new products shattered the record set in 2010. And innovation continues to run high in the industry; the creativity of issuers is still impressive, as many of the ETFs that have debuted over the last year have offered access to new asset classes and strategies. There are no doubt still stones to be overturned, and many new opportunities in the ETF space. Yesterday, we profiled a number of the new additions to the ETF lineup in 2011 that had been a big hit with investors; nearly 20 of the exchange-traded products launched in 2011 have already accumulated more than $1 billion in assets. Today, we’ll take a look at ten ETFs that debuted in 2011 that haven’t been quite as successful pulling in assets, but that [...]

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Direxion Launches Insider Sentiment ETFs

Michael Johnston — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:21:21 +0000

Direxion, one of the largest issuers of leveraged and inverse ETFs, announced the launch today of a pair of non-leveraged funds that will utilize insider sentiment indicators to achieve exposure to domestic equities. The new ETFs will seek to replicate indexes that filter the universe of U.S. equities using quant-based strategies to eliminate stocks with aggressive accounting. The methodology behind the new ETFs will analyze public company filings related to frequency of trades, purchases of stock and increases in holdings by “insiders,” as well as positive earnings analysis. The companies with the highest “insider sentiment” scores are included in the funds. The two new ETFs are: Direxion All Cap Insider Sentiment Shares (KNOW): This ETF is linked to the Sabrient Multi-Cap Insider/Analyst Quant-Weighted Index, which consists of 100 stocks that are included in the S&P 1500. The underlying index is “quant-weighted,” meaning the top 50 stocks are weighted exponentially (the [...]

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Ten New Years’ Resolutions For ETF Investors

Michael Johnston — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:00:09 +0000

With 2011 just around the corner, tis the season for pledges to better everything from health to wealth to happiness in the coming year. Below, we offer up ten New Years’ Resolutions for ETF investors looking to cut expenses, round out their portfolios, and maximize returns in 2011 [for more ETF insights, sign up for our free ETF newsletter]: 10. Slim Down Your Expense Ratios If you’ve already made the jump away from pricey active mutual funds to more cost-efficient ETFs, our Mutual Fund To ETF Converter might not be of much use. But just because you’ve embraced ETFs in an effort to become a more cost conscious investor doesn’t mean that you’ve done all you can to trim your expense ratio. Some of the gaps between expense ratios of similar or even identical ETFs are wide enough to drive a truck through, meaning that there may be opportunities to [...]

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Ten Commandments Of ETF Investing

Michael Johnston — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:05:53 +0000

As ETFs have burst on to the scene in recent years and worked their way into the investing mainstream, the number of products available and complexity of exposure offered has increased significantly. Advisors and investors have taken steps to educate themselves on the ins and outs of ETFs, but many are still scrambling to play catch-up and unaware of the complexities these products can present. What began as a handful of securities seeking to replicate widely-known stock and bond indexes has grown into a lineup of more than 1,000 funds, offering exposure to nearly every asset class, region, and investment strategy imaginable. While this impressive growth has enhanced the arsenal of securities available to ETF investors, it has also created the potential for misuse and made finding the right ticker symbol a bit more challenging. And while ETFs offer countless potential advantages relative to strategies that revolve around mutual funds [...]

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Vanguard Ups The Ante, Launches Russell ETFs

Michael Johnston — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:37:27 +0000

After recently rolling out a suite of ETFs linked to popular S&P indexes, Vanguard continued its push to grab a larger share of the ETF market on Wednesday by introducing seven new products linked to Russell benchmarks. The new Vanguard ETFs include: Russell 1000 ETF (VONE) Russell 1000 Value ETF (VONV) Russell 1000 Growth ETF (VONG) Russell 2000 ETF (VTWO) Russell 2000 Value ETF (VTWV) Russell 2000 Growth ETF (VTWG) Russell 3000 ETF (VTHR) The introduction of these new ETFs represents a new chapter in the intensifying battle between Vanguard and iShares for ETF market share. iShares is currently the biggest player in the U.S. market, accounting for nearly half of all ETF assets. Vanguard ranks third by total assets, but has seen red-hot growth over the last year. Each of the new Russell products will go head-to-head with an existing iShares ETF–meaning that each firm now offers an exchange-traded [...]

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Ten ETFs Every Advisor Should Know (But Most Have Never Heard Of): Part I

Michael Johnston — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:00:08 +0000

As the ETF industry has expanded at a breakneck pace in recent years, keeping track of all the products out there has become no easy task. There are now well more than 1,000 exchange-traded products included in the ETF Screener, and many of those have hit the market in the last two to three years. As ETFs have attracted billions of dollars in cash inflows, it has primarily been the well-established, plain vanilla products that have demonstrated the most impressive growth. Part of that is no doubt because many of the new funds launched in recent years have been targeted in on very specific corners of the investable universe or utilized advanced screening methodologies to select individual holdings, making them useless to investors with a long-term focus. But some of the more recent additions to the ETF lineup include products that should be considered as “building blocks” of long-term, buy-and-hold [...]

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Simplifying Investing: Five All Cap ETF Options

Jared Cummans — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:15:31 +0000

ETFs have burst onto the investing scene in part because they allow for a tremendous simplification of the portfolio construction process. Even relatively novice investors are able to construct a well-diversified, balanced portfolio with just a handful of tickers, eliminating a slew of unnecessary expenses in the process. For most investors with a high or moderate risk tolerance, the domestic equity component of a portfolio will receive the largest weighting, and is generally broken down into at least three buckets: small, mid, and large caps. But some take simplicity to the extreme, electing to achieve the entirety of their domestic equity exposure through a single fund [see Low Cost ETFs: Complete List Of The Cheapest Exchange-Traded Funds]. Before the widespread adoption of ETFs, such a step may have bordered on insanity. But now there are a number of options that include exposure to thousands of individual securities within a single [...]

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ETFs vs. Mutual Funds: Breaking Down Expense Ratios

Michael Johnston — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:00:20 +0000

Although ETFs offer many potential advantages over traditional actively-managed mutual funds, the most commonly-cited benefit is perhaps the easiest to grasp: lower expenses. In order to cover their costs–teams of analysts and pricey analytical tools used in pursuit of alpha–mutual funds typically always charge expense ratios in excess of 1% (and many times north of 2%). Because ETFs seek to passively replicate a benchmark, they are able to charge much lower expense ratios–as low as the 7 basis points charged by VTI (see the 25 cheapest ETFs). Most investors are aware that ETFs charge lower fees than mutual funds, but not all fully grasp the impact that management fees can have on bottom line returns, especially over the long term. While a few basis points here and there may not seem like much in the short term, these differences in management fees can translate into big dollar amounts over longer [...]

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Claymore Launches Three Wilshire ETFs (WFVK, WXSP, WREI)

Michael Johnston — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:05:43 +0000

Claymore, the Chicagoland issuer known for its line of themed ETFs and targeted sector funds, has launched three new ETFs based on broad market indexes maintained by Wilshire. The new funds include the Wilshire 5000 Total Market ETF (WFVK), Wilshire 45oo Completion Index ETF (WXSP), and Wilshire U.S. REIT ETF (WREI). Many investors are familiar with the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index, a benchmark used to measure the performance of domestic equity markets. Originally named after the 5,000 stocks included when it was created in 1974, the index currently includes approximately 4,000 U.S. stocks. While many well-known market barometers, such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Russell 1000, consist entirely of large cap stocks, the Wilshire 5000 gives significant weight to smaller firms. Mid cap and small cap stocks make up about 20% and 9%, respectively, of the Wilshire 5000, making it more representative of the broad [...]

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