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

by Michael Johnston on March 9, 2010

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). [click to continue…]

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Grail Advisors To Launch Four Actively-Managed ETFs

by Michael Johnston on September 30, 2009

San Francisco-based Grail Advisors is set to expand its presence in the actively-managed ETF space, introducing four actively-managed ETFs later this week: RP Growth, RP Focused Large Cap Growth, RP Technology, and RP Financials. The new funds will join Grail’s existing actively-managed ETF, the Grail American Beacon Large Cap Value ETF (GVT), which launched earlier this year. Similar to GVT, the funds expected to be launched Thursday will be backed by investment teams that select individual holdings and weightings, a sharp departure from tactics used by the vast majority of exchange-traded products. [click to continue…]

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Special Report: Alpha ETFs Come Of Age

by Michael Johnston on September 1, 2009

In the summer of 1992, Eugene Fama and Kenneth French published “The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns” in The Journal of Finance, a groundbreaking analysis that prompted financial presses to run headlines declaring “beta is dead.” While the death sentence may have been a bit severe, it struck a significant blow to a widely-accepted and [...]

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