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May ETFdb Category Kings: Best Performing ETFs

Michael Johnston — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:00:43 +0000

The month of May was a generally disappointing stretch for investors, as both international and domestic equity markets struggled to overcome obstacles new and old. Commodities, which had been a nice source of absolute returns for much of the last year, fell on hard times as well; precious metals went into a brief freefall, and most other natural resources saw price declines as well. May demonstrated the importance of a meaningful allocation to fixed income within any long-term portfolio, as most bond ETFs turned in nice gains during the month. The following tables highlight the best performers from each ETFdb Category during the month of May [ETFdb Pro members can download spreadsheets showing performance and expense data for the entire ETF universe]. Equity ETFs Though most equity ETFs finished May in negative territory, there were a handful of bright spots among the hundreds of ETFs that slice and dice the [...]

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PIMCO Planning Global Inflation-Linked Bond ETF

Eric Dutram — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:00:16 +0000

Thanks to Ben Bernanke’s $600 billion foray into the U.S. Treasury markets in the hotly debated QE2, many investors have begun to worry that a severe bout of inflation is right around the corner. Renewed anxiety has pushed Treasury Inflation Protected Bonds, or TIPS, to a negative yield in recent auctions, underscoring just how robust the demand is for these “real return” securities. Many investors have embraced ETFs as an efficient means of accessing inflation-protected fixed income securities, as evidenced by the huge cash flows into TIPS funds. Far and away the most popular is the iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund (TIP), which has amassed over $20 billion in assets and trades more than 800,000 shares on an average day. While this fund remains one of the top choices for investors seeking inflation-protected securities, it solely focuses on the U.S. TIPS market, avoiding the both developed and emerging international markets. [...]

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TIPS ETFs: Looking Beyond TIP

Michael Johnston — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:45:54 +0000

When governments around the world began implementing massive stimulus plans to lift the global economy from a deep recession, opinions were sharply divided. While it seems that these plans have been successful in the short run–as evidenced by the remarkable rally over the last 13 months–some investors have become increasingly concerned about the long-term impact of such significant spending. Most of these concerns have centered around the prospect of runaway inflation resulting from a huge increase in the money supply. While current inflation at nearly zero, almost everyone believed that some upward movement was inevitable, but the magnitude of the increase was the subject of much debate; estimates ranged from the high end of the Fed’s “comfort zone” to well into double digits. A recent study from the Wall Street Journal now suggests that economists are “evenly divided between those who fear inflation will accelerate over the next year and [...]

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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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