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ETF Insider: Does Gold Still Glitter?

Stoyan Bojinov — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:30:44 +0000

Stock markets around the globe plunged last week following the Fed’s decision to proceed with “Operation Twist“, which sent waves of fear and panic-selling across every corner of the market. Long-term U.S. Treasury bonds were the only securities that didn’t get slaughtered last week, the S&P 500 shed more than 6% while the MSCI Emerging Markets Index lost over a whopping 11%. Not even gold could escape the chaos as the precious metal surprisingly sank over 7% during one of the “uglier” weeks on Wall Street, settling below $1,700 an ounce for the first time in a while. Investor confidence has further eroded as euro zone debt issues remain unanswered and the drama likely won’t see the happy ending that many are hoping for. Weekly Outlook The coming week is quite lacking in major economic releases on the international front, while investors at home will have a bit more data [...]

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REZ: Crushing The Real Estate ETF Competition

Eric Dutram — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:00:40 +0000

With a weak consumer economy and a lack of job creation, concerns are once again beginning to return to the housing industry. For the 10 City Case-Shiller index, prices are down year-over-year in non seasonally adjusted terms for the most recent reading, leading to a dreaded double dip for many markets around the country. However, this doesn’t give investors the full picture of the real estate market in the country, as a number of other corners of the space have help up rather well in comparison. Stocks in some corners of the retail space, as well as those in the storage and medical sectors, have managed to do rather well in these difficult times and have given investors both solid gains and nice dividend yields. So, while overall the sector may still be facing some headwinds, most funds in the Real Estate ETFdb Category have performed rather well so far [...]

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First Small Cap REIT ETF Debuts: ROOF

Michael Johnston — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:42:26 +0000

IndexIQ, the issuer perhaps best known for its hedge fund replication ETFs, rolled out the latest addition to its growing suite of small cap lineup today: the IQ U.S. Real Estate Small Cap ETF (ROOF). The new product will be the first to offer exposure exclusively to small cap U.S. REITs, seeking to replicate the IQ US Real Estate Small Cap Index. That benchmark includes about 35 individual securities with a weighted average market capitalization of just over $1 billion; the underlying index is constructed by taking the bottom 10% of the market capitalization of U.S. REITs, subject to certain minimum market capitalization and average daily trading volume restrictions. ROOF becomes the 17th ETF in the Real Estate ETFdb Category, but the first to focus only on small cap stocks. That distinguishing feature may give the new ETF a unique risk/return profile; small cap REITs have put together an impressive [...]

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Five More iShares ETFs Now Available Commission Free

Michael Johnston — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0000

Celebrating the one year anniversary of their partnership on a commission-free ETF platform, iShares and Fidelity announced the expansion of a program that allows free trading of certain iShares ETFs. The addition of the five ETFs brings the total number of iShares products that can be traded commission-free in Fidelity accounts from 25 to 30: iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (HYG) Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund (DVY) Dow Jones International Select Dividend Fund (IDV) Dow Jones US Real Estate Index Fund (IYR) MSCI ACWI ex US Index Fund (ACWX) “We’re pleased to extend our partnership with BlackRock to give investors even more choices for how they can diversify their portfolios with ETFs – all at a tremendous value,” said James C. Burton, president of Fidelity’s retail brokerage business. “In fact, since launching the iShares offer a year ago, investors have saved millions of dollars in commissions on the [...]

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AdvisorShares Teams Up With Cambria On Active Global ETF (GTAA)

Michael Johnston — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:44:05 +0000

AdvisorShares continues to expand its footprint in the active ETF arena, announcing today the launch of the Cambria Global Tactical ETF (GTAA). The new fund comes out of a partnership with Cambria Investment Management, the firm run by Mebane Faber and Eric Richardson. Faber is perhaps best known for his 2007 paper A Quantitative Approach To Tactical Asset Allocation, in which he presented a quantitative market timing model designed to manage risk in various markets and deliver equity-like returns with bond-like volatility and drawdown. Along with Richardson, Faber co-authored The Ivy Portfolio, an influential book that offers average investors a strategy to mimic the world-beating returns posted by endowments at Harvard and Yale. Cambria has been managing separate accounts since 2007, and the firm’s global allocation models became particularly popular during the recent recession when the risk management strategies they implement allowed many investors to sit out much of the [...]

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Worried About Fixed Income Bubbles? Try A Dividend ETF

Jared Cummans — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:55:22 +0000

Despite bullish rhetoric from Washington and some indications of progress–the strength of the recent earnings season was a pleasant surprise–investors remain anxious in the current environment. With equity markets facing tremendous obstacles ahead, including elevated unemployment rates and an uncertain regulatory environment, safe havens have seen no shortage of interest [see Three ETFs To Protect Against A “Hindenburg Omen” Sighting]. The 18 month period between January 2009 and June 2010 saw an astonishing $232 billion flow out of equity markets. During that same period, a total of $559 billion was invested in fixed income, demonstrating that investors are clearly gravitating towards the low-risk/low-reward profile offered by bonds. Bond prices have soared and yields have plummeted in recent months, leaving more and more analysts worried that a bond bubble is forming. IF that is indeed the case, the unwinding could wreak havoc on what many consider to be today’s safest investments. [...]

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Five ETFs With Surprising Turnover

Michael Johnston — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:08:40 +0000

For someone who played such a major role in the introduction and widespread adoption of ETFs, Vanguard Group founder John Bogle has some surprisingly negative perceptions of these products. Bogle’s beef isn’t with the exchange-traded structure (he’s referred to that as a “truly great business model” that helps investors avoid the “tyranny of compounded costs”), but rather the manner in which ETFs are now commonly used by investors. At first glance, ETFs have obvious appeal to long term buy-and-hold investors. For those who acknowledge what Bogle has called the “relentless rules of humble arithmetic”–the idea that over time active managers won’t consistently beat their benchmark–ETFs offer a cost-efficient alternative. Over an extended period of time, the differences in fees between ETFs and actively-managed mutual funds can translate into huge dollar amounts. But the big inflows into ETFs in recent years are not attributable to buy-and-holders alone. Some of the other [...]

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Time For A Real Estate ETF?

Michael Johnston — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:41:32 +0000

Historically, no portfolio was complete without a material allocation to real estate. Consistently high real returns and low correlations to stocks and bonds made it easy to overlook the out-of-whack fundamentals that ultimately led to an unprecedented collapse. But when real estate markets got a reality check in late 2008, many investors swore off the asset class for good. Or so they thought. After losing their shirts in real estate investments during the financial crisis, many investors washed their hands (and their portfolios) of REITs, unable to tolerate such extreme volatility and unwilling to accept the downside ramifications of risky assets. But investors who were able to spot the bottom of the real estate market in the U.S. have been handsomely rewarded, and now many are beginning to consider a more significant allocation to this asset class. The ETF boom has presented dozens of options for investors looking to add [...]

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Daily ETF Roundup: UNG Tumbles, IYR Jumps

Michael Johnston — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:01:32 +0000

Investors returned from a long holiday weekend with a lot more than leftovers to digest. The crisis in Dubai continued to evolve, with uncertainty over the UAE’s ultimate involvement in Dubai the latest cause for concern. Meanwhile, India surprised investors by reporting GDP growth of nearly 8% for the year, likely setting the stage for interest rate hikes early next year. Back in the U.S., all eyes were focused on online retailers as “Cyber Monday” marked another start to the holiday shopping season. The ETFdb 60 Index, a benchmark measuring the performance of the universe of investable assets available through ETFs, added 4.10 points to close the month on a positive note. Gainers outnumbered losers by nearly three-to-one on moderate volume. The ETFdb 60 was kept in check by by the United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG), which lost almost 7% amid continued concerns over a glut in supply. Recent [...]

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ETFs To Play Along With Allstate

Michael Johnston — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:00:39 +0000

Allstate Corp., the largest publicly-traded insurer of homes and automobiles in the U.S., announced this week that it is making some major shifts in its investment portfolio that now exceeds $100 billion. The Northbrook, Illinois-based company announced that it is reducing its exposure to commercial real estate and municipal bonds in favor of corporate debt. After a disappointing performance in 2008, corporate bonds have delivered stellar returns in the six months, yielding 13% in the second quarter and more than 9% in the third quarter according to Merrill Lynch. Corporate bonds lost almost 11% in 2008. Allstate is tilting its debt holdings towards investment grade securities, avoiding the temptations of junk bonds with yields to maturity approaching 10%. “There is probably more of a quality bias to our buying,” Mark Cloghessy, managing director of Allstate’s portfolio management group, told Bloomberg. “We are looking at the investment-grade side of the market, [...]

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