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Ten Best ETF Performers Over The Last Five Years (Including A Few Surprises)

Michael Johnston — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:00:44 +0000

The last five years have seen a tremendous expansion of the ETF industry, as assets have skyrocketed and the number of products available to U.S.-based investors has multiplied. That same period of time has also been a period of tremendous volatility in global financial markets; the last five years have witnessed an unprecedented financial crisis, one of the most severe recessions in history, and a remarkable recovery in both 2009 and 2010. A look back at the performance of exchange-traded funds over the last five years (ending October 31) highlights the tremendous growth of the ETF industry as well as the challenging realities of recent history. Though there are now more than 1,350 ETPs, only 330 or so were launched before November 2006. Of those that are still in existence, about half have delivered negative returns over that period–a remarkable testament to the impact that the volatility of recent years [...]

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ETFdb Category Kings: Best Performers From First Half Of 2011

Michael Johnston — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:00:40 +0000

The first half of 2011 is officially in the books, and many investors find their portfolios in approximately the same place as they were to start the year (though a furious rally in the final week of the quarter gave a nice boost at an opportune moment). Most major equity indexes are up slightly on the year, while fixed income benchmarks have similarly hovered around breakeven. Beyond these broad generalizations, there are some significant performance discrepancies among exchange-traded products that may seem to offer up similar risk/return profiles. The following tables highlight the top performers from every ETFdb Category during the first six months of the year, shedding some light on the asset classes that have struggled and thrived so far in 2011–and reinforcing that the seemingly minor distinctions between ETPs can lead to big differences in performance [for monthly updates on the best performers, sign up for the free [...]

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ETF Securities Rumored To Be Planning IPO

Michael Johnston — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:00:38 +0000

ETF Securities, the giant of the European ETF market that has amassed more than $4 billion in a suite of seven U.S.-listed products, is taking steps towards an initial public offering according to the Wall Street Journal. The ETF issuer has reportedly retained Citigroup and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to discuss its strategic options, which may include an initial public offering depending on market conditions. No comment was available from either bank or from ETF Securities. There has been no shortage of acquisition activity in the ETF space over the last several years, highlighting the appeal of the rapidly-growing industry. Guggenheim acquired both Rydex and Claymore, while BlackRock snapped up market leader iShares in a $13.5 billion deal. More recently Russell acquired Reno-based U.S. One, the issuer behind the One Fund (ONEF), and Ameriprise has launched a bid for the assets of Grail Advisors, a pioneer in the actively-managed [...]

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Three ETFs For $50 Silver

Eric Dutram — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:00:43 +0000

Thanks to inflationary pressures and booming emerging markets, a number of key commodities have seen their values soar so far in 2011. While this trend has been especially pronounced in the energy and food commodity markets, precious metals have also been a huge beneficiary of the movement as many traders and investors have piled into these assets as safe havens. While gold has performed admirably during this time period, silver has been the real star, with prices surging from under $30/oz. at the start of the year to well over $40/oz. in a matter of months. Thanks to these gains, and the continued worry over fiat currencies as well as the ever increasing demand for the metal both in industrial uses and by those in emerging markets, some believe that silver still has quite a bit of room to run. In fact, several analysts are calling for the metal to [...]

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Commodity ETFs Get No Love From Investors

Michael Johnston — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:00:34 +0000

It doesn’t seem like that long ago that exchange-traded commodity products were the darlings of the ETF world. Praised for democratizing an entire asset class (and one capable of delivering non-correlated returns to investors at that), commodity ETFs saw billions of dollars of cash inflows in 2009. Investors rushed to get their hands on everything from copper to tin, and they embraced the transparency and liquidity that the exchange-traded structure had to offer. Last year was a banner year for commodities, with inflationary pressures, surging demand from emerging markets, and a host of supply issues conspiring to push prices of various resources sharply higher. Corn prices surged, gold repeatedly set new record highs, and a host of other agricultural products–including sugar and soybeans–climbed sharply higher. While 2010 was a stellar year all around for investors–most major asset classes posted nice gains–commodities were clearly the star. Lists of the year’s best [...]

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Top Five Commodity ETFs Of 2010

Jared Cummans — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:00:43 +0000

As we put the finishing touches on 2010, the year has shaped up to be one of the most eventful in recent memory for global markets as a number of important events impacted the world economy. Among the events that dominated financial headlines this year were an (ongoing) sovereign debt crisis, the flash crash, a violent volcanic eruption that grounded air traffic for some time in Europe, a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and another wave of quantitative easing aimed to get the U.S. back on track. Equities have struggled to fall into a pattern, as the S&P 500 started the year off around 1,132, and has managed to fight through uncertainty to gain around 100 points on the year. Overall, a 100 point gain seems solid from the outside looking in, but halfway through 2010, the S&P was down 100 points from its opening level, showing [...]

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ETFs To Play White Hot Silver

Michael Johnston — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:00:30 +0000

One of the recurring investment themes over the last several months has been the seemingly unstoppable climb of gold. As the U.S. dollar has encountered weakness driven by worries over inflation and deteriorating credit quality, investors have embraced hard currencies as a hedge against the greenback, sending prices of gold bullion skyrocketing. The precious metals rally was given another boost last week with the unveiling of QE2, the latest capital injection program from the Fed that many investors believe will weigh on the dollar and stoke the inflationary flames. While gold’s remarkable rally has dominated the headlines, the performance has been overshadowed by another precious metal. Silver has quietly emerged as one of the top-performing asset classes of 2010, thanks to many of the same factors that have driven gold prices higher. Silver has climbed by more than 60% so far in 2010, more than doubling the run-up in gold [...]

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ETF Securities Planning Precious Metal Basket ETF

Eric Dutram — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:00:07 +0000

As the U.S. economy continues to struggle and more intervention from the Fed seems inevitable, the dollar has been battered in currency markets. The greenback has already lost close to 8% over the past few months against the world’s other major currencies, and while a Chinese rate hike earlier this week helped to temporarily stem the losses, the downward has now resumed. As confidence in paper currency wanes, many investors have been buying up precious metals ETFs, especially those that physically hold gold. In fact, all three of the gold-backed ETFs have more than $1 billion under management and are led by the $56 billion Gold SPDR (GLD). Investors are also looking beyond gold to the rest of the precious metals asset class as options in this increasingly tricky economic situation. Over $1 billion is now invested in physically-backed platinum (PPLT) and palladium (PALL) ETFs, while physically-backed silver funds currently [...]

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Playing Precious Metals Through Equity ETFs

Michael Johnston — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:00:28 +0000

Perhaps no corner of the ETF market has exploded as rapidly as the precious metals space, as the democratization of an asset class previously off limits to many investors has resulted in billions of dollars in cash inflows. The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) is now the second-largest ETF by total assets, with more than $53 billion under management. Two other physically-backed gold ETFs (IAU and SGOL) have aggregate assets of nearly $5 billion, while a couple of silver funds (SLV and SIVR) hold another $6 billion. Even the relatively young platinum ETF (PPLT, $485 million) and palladium ETF (PALL, $393 million) have been huge hits with investors. In aggregate these seven physically-backed precious metals ETFs represent about 8% of total ETF assets, a remarkable statistic highlighting the amount of interest in this asset class. Precious metals represent the only corner of the commodity market where exposure to spot prices is [...]

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Seven Reasons Why Silver Could Soar

Eric Dutram — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:26 +0000

With consumer confidence plunging and governments around the world racking up seemingly unpayable bills, many investors have sought refuge outside of fiat currencies in order to help protect some of their assets from the ravages of inflation which is sure to come eventually. Almost by default, investors have piled into gold which has seen its price soar to $1250/oz. before dropping back to the $1160/oz. level it is at currently. This recent pullback has left gold investors will an interesting dilemma; buy more assuming that the economy or the dollar collapse, or sell as the economy picks back up on the back of solid corporate earnings in a variety of sectors. Although gold remains an excellent hedge against failing currencies, it does not offer the same upside in good times that its cousin silver does which is extremely important in these uncertain times. This is because gold has virtually no [...]

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