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PIMCO Launches Active TIPS ETF (ILB)

Michael Johnston — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:30:28 +0000

PIMCO, fresh off the extremely successful launch of its Total Return ETF (BOND), has rolled out another actively managed bond fund that taps into a corner of the fixed income market that has generated significant interest in recent years. The new Global Advantage Inflation-Linked Bond Strategy Fund (ILB) will be comprised of inflation-protected bonds, securities that are designed to appreciate along with official inflation metrics. The new PIMCO ETF will be benchmarked against the PIMCO Global Advantage Inflation-Linked Bond Index, and will invest in inflation-protected bonds that are ‘economically tied to at least three developed and emerging market countries (one of which may be the United States)” according to the prospectus. While most inflation-protected bond ETFs focus primarily on U.S. securities, there are a handful that maintain an international focus. The SPDR DB International Government Inflation-Protected Bond ETF (WIP) holds a broad-based portfolio with a tilt towards Western Europe, while the iShares [...]

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Bond ETFs For Every Objective

Michael Johnston — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:53 +0000

As the lineup of exchange-traded products has expanded dramatically in recent years, financial advisors have found themselves with more tools at their disposal than ever before. The extreme granularity of many of the equity products out there allows for cheap, low maintenance targeting of specific corners of the investable universe, while the development of some increasingly complex products has opened up strategies that were previously inaccessible. But perhaps the most impressive innovation in recent years has come on the bond side of the market, where the arsenal has expanded considerably over the past two years. Whatever your objective for the fixed income side of client portfolios, odds are there is an ETF that can be used to help you out. Below, we highlight ten common objectives when it comes to managing a bond portfolio–as well as the ETFs that can be used to achieve those goals [for more ETF insights, sign [...]

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Three Bond ETFs To Weather The Storm

Jared Cummans — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:00:22 +0000

The downgrade handed down from Standard and Poor’s on U.S. debts was detrimental to American stocks for a short period, as major indexes saw plunges of 5% or more upon the release of the news. With investors flocking to pull their assets from equities, gold has seen yet another historic landmark as it broke through the $1,900 per ounce mark in intraday trading. But another asset class will be in heavy focus over the next couple months; fixed income. With the U.S. downgraded and investors worried about how we will manage our current debt, bond ETFs will be in the limelight for a foreseeable future, as Washington fights over how to move forward and find any sort of compromise [see also ETF Insider: Panic Sparks Gold Rally]. While stocks have been swaying back and forth, two-year treasury yields hit their all-time low on concerns over the future of our economy. With [...]

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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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PIMCO Launches Broad U.S. Treasury Index Fund (TRSY)

Eric Dutram — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:00:09 +0000

PIMCO was a latecomer to the ETF industry. But since wading into the ETF waters last year, the California-based bond giant, has rapidly built up its fixed income lineup, which now includes both actively-managed and passively-indexed products focusing on munis, investment grade corporate debt, Build America Bonds, and of course U.S. Treasuries. The company expanded its lineup even further this week, rolling out the Broad U.S. Treasury Index Fund (TRSY), bringing its total number of funds up to 13 [also read Ten Intriguing ETF Storylines]. The fund tracks the BofA Merrill Lynch Liquid US Treasury Index, a benchmark that tracks the performance of the three most recently issued 2-year, 3-year, 5-year, 7-year, 10-year, and 30-year U.S. Treasury notes and bonds. The fund’s fact sheet cites that these issues typically offer better liquidity to investors over their more seasoned counterparts, suggesting that this method may help to reduce investor transaction costs–by [...]

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PIMCO Launches MUNI Bond ETF

Michael Johnston — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:40:53 +0000

PIMCO, the Newport Beach, California-based bond fund giant, launched its latest exchange-traded fund on Wednesday, the Intermediate Municipal Bond Strategy Fund. The new ETF, which comes with an expense ratio of 35 basis points, will trade under the ticker MUNI, which was somehow still available. The ETF will be managed by John Cummings, the company’s executive vice president and head of PIMCO’s municipal bond desk. MUNI will be benchmarked against the Barclays Capital 1-15 Year Municipal Bond Index, and will invest in a portfolio of bonds that are of high credit quality, intermediate duration, and carry interest payments exempt from federal tax. Why Municipal Bonds? Despite the massive size of the municipal bond market, currently more than $2.6 trillion (PDF), there are only 13 other ETFs in our National Munis ETFdb Category with a combined $5.4 billion in assets under management (which equates to less than 0.21% of the total [...]

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PIMCO Rounds Out Treasury ETFs With ZROZ, FIVZ

Michael Johnston — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:45:42 +0000

Newport Beach, California-based PIMCO, one of the largest bond fund companies in the world, has made two additions to its small but growing line of fixed income exchange-traded funds. The PIMCO 3-7 Year U.S. Treasury Index Fund (FIVZ) completes the lineup of products covering key rate segments of the Treasury market, fitting between PIMCO’s 1-3 Year Treasury Index Fund (TUZ) and 7-15 Year U.S. Treasury Fund (TENZ). FIVZ will track the BofA Merrill Lynch 3-7 Year U.S. Treasury Index, a benchmark that measures the performance of U.S. government debt with at least $1 billion in outstanding face value and a term to maturity of between three and seven years. PIMCO also announced the launch of the 25+ Year Coupon U.S. Treasury Index Fund (ZROZ), which tracks the BofA Merrill Lynch Long U.S. Treasury Principal STRIPS Index. STRIPS are government debt issues whose interest and principal portions have been split in [...]

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September 2009 ETF Roundup: Launches, Filings, and Closures

Andy H — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:00:40 +0000

September was one of the most active months in the ETF industry in recent memory. We saw a wave of new fund launches from industry leaders and smaller players alike, along with perhaps the first of many commodity fund closures. September saw the introduction of another actively-managed ETF, proposals on several more innovative funds, and expanding product lines from many of the industry’s newest entrants. New Fund Launches A total of 12 new ETFs were launched in September, ranging from plain vanilla iShares ETFs to a physically-backed Swiss Gold ETF from ETF Securities to an actively-managed fund run by best-selling author and well-known investor Harry Dent. ETFs added to our ETF Screener this month include: ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares (SGOL): This ETF has already proven itself to be a viable competitor to GLD, accumulating $100 million in assets in its first month of trading. Three new funds from Pimco, [...]

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Pimco Boosts ETF Presence

Michael Johnston — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:02:08 +0000

Pimco, the Newport Beach, California-based bond fund giant, is quickly expanding its presence in the ETF arena. Three months ago, Pimco was watching from the sidelines as iShares continued to show its dominance in the fixed income ETF space. With the launch of three additional ETFs this month, Pimco’s product line now consists of five funds, and is likely to continue to expand. Pimco’s ETFs include: Pimco 7-15 Year U.S. Treasury Index Fund (TENZ) Pimco 15+ Year U.S. TIPS Index Fund (LTPZ) Pimco Broad U.S. TIPS Index Fund (TIPZ) Pimco 1-5 Year U.S. TIPS Index Fund (STPZ) Pimco 1-3 Year U.S. Treasury Index Fund (TUZ) Behind the scenes, Pimco is continuing to prepare for additional fund launches, but it appears that the firm has concentrated for now on boosting its line of inflation-protected securities. As worries about the intermediate to long-term consequences of the massive stimulus packages implemented around the [...]

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