Last year saw more than 100 new product launches, ranging from plain vanilla equity and bond funds to ETFs offering exposure to exotic new investment strategies and asset classes previously available only to a limited slice of the investing community. The innovation that has made ETFs a popular alternative to mutual funds seems ready to continue through2010. Based on discussions with industry executives and others covering the industry, it seems like a safe bet that 2010 will shatter existing records for new ETF launches.
But there has also been some concern over saturation in the ETF industry, as well more than 100 funds currently have less than $10 million in assets. Hype around the launch of new products doesn’t always translate into sustained investor demand. While many investors and advisors are looking forward to some of the exciting products in the pipeline for 2010, we take a look back, checking in on ten of the most interesting ETFs launched in 2009 (we should note the the numbers don’t reflect a ranking of any sort). [click to continue…]
Keith Geary is the chairman, president, and CEO of The Geary Companies, an Oklahoma-based financial services firm. Geary Advisors recently launched the Texas Large Companies Exchange-Traded Fund (TXF) and Oklahoma ETF (OOK), the first state-specific equity ETFs available to U.S. investors. He recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk about his firm’s products with ETF Database. [click to continue…]
The reasons for the rise of the ETF industry are numerous: intraday liquidity, (potentially) superior tax efficiency, and enhanced transparency relative to traditional actively-managed mutual funds have all contributed to the billions of dollars of inflows that these funds have seen in recent years. But the real attraction for most ETF investors is the reduced [...]
The ETF industry picked up steam in November, with several highly-anticipated funds coming to market and multiple issuers disclosing new details on innovative products that could be launched in 2010. The biggest news for the month was the entrance of Charles Schwab into the industry with the launch of four ETFs in early November. Debuting [...]
Oklahoma City-based Geary Advisors, LLC announced today that they are in the process of reducing the fund fees for their two state-specific ETFs, including the TXF Large Companies Exchange-Traded Fund (TXF) and the Oklahoma Exchange-Traded Fund (OOK). When these ETFs were initially launched (OOK in late October and TXF in early November), both charged fees [...]
OOK Advisors announced the launch of its second exchange-traded fund on Wednesday as the TXF Large Companies Exchange-Traded Fund (TXF) began trading on the NYSE Arca Exchange. The new fund will track the SPADE Texas Index, a benchmark designed to measure the performance of the largest companies headquartered in the state. The index is up [...]
