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Fund Managers Turn Bullish As “Risk Appetite” Increases

Stoyan Bojinov — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:44 +0000

Although uncertainty continues to linger across financial markets, investors’ confidence in the global economic recovery has without a doubt improved considerably going forward, shaking off much of last year’s pessimism. Debt negotiations in the Euro zone have played a key role in ensuring stability, while better-than-expected economic data releases on the home front have helped to reignite optimism. According to a recent survey by Bank of America, global investors have started 2012 with fairly bullish prospects and greater appetite for risk [see also 12 Rapid Fire ETF Ideas For 2012]. The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey, which was conducted earlier in January of this year, shows that of the participating 214 institutional investors, reveals that few are predicting a global slowdown. Bullish Sentiment Is Building The survey revealed that only 3% of the participants believe economic growth will weaken in 2012; this is a drastic improvement from [...]

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AdvisorShares Rolls Out SectorSAM ETF (SSAM)

Michael Johnston — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:35:15 +0000

AdvisorShares, one of the largest issuers of actively-managed ETFs, has forged a partnership to bring an active sector rotation ETF to market. The new Rockledge SectorSAM ETF (SSAM), which began trading Thursday, will seek to generate stable and consistent returns in all market conditions, developing a dollar neutral portfolio comprised of sector ETFs. The new ETF will utilize the Sector Scoring and Allocation Methodology (“SSAM”), a technique based on a proprietary quantitative analysis model that forecasts the projected returns to various sectors of the U.S. economy. The ETF will establish long positions in sector ETFs that are expected to outperform the S&P 500 and short positions in those that are expected to underperform that benchmark. The result is a dollar neutral portfolio that will effectively capture the delta between the long and short positions–meaning that SSAM has the potential to deliver positive returns regardless of whether the S&P 500 is rallying [...]

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Looking Back At Our ETF Ideas For 2011

Michael Johnston — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:00:48 +0000

With snow now blanketing a big part of the country and 2012 just a few weeks away, looking back at the past year becomes a popular activity. For many portfolios, 2011 has been marked by big swings that seem to be leaving investors right about where they started; there has been plenty of activity over the last 11 months, but little to show for it in way of returns. Like many others, we put forth a list of actionable ETF ideas that we believed were positioned to perform well in 2011 at the end of last year, laying out the investment thesis behind 11 exchange-traded products that we thought would thrive this year. With 2011 coming to a close, it’s time to take a look back at our predictions for this year, noting some big wins and lamenting a few calls [see 11 Rapid Fire ETF Ideas For 2011]: “Rapid [...]

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Daily ETF Roundup: XLK Surges As Tech Giants Rally, VXX Creeps Lower On Improving Confidence

Stoyan Bojinov — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:00:02 +0000

European markets struggled to gain much traction as Italian debt woes remain far from resolved, although the uncertainty surprisingly did not spill over onto Wall Street. Domestic equity indexes worked their way higher, bolstered by positive economic data and improving investor confidence in the U.S. economic recovery. The Nasdaq led the way higher with a robust 1.09% gain on the day, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged behind, clinching a minimal 0.14% gain. Crude oil prices climbed alongside equities, settling just below $100 a barrel for the day. Gold on the other hand was fairly directionless, ending the session higher by just a few points right around $1,780 an ounce [see ETF Insider: Expect More Volatility]. Optimism on Wall Street was fundamentally justified as U.S. retail sales during the month of October surpassed analyst expectations. Domestic retail sales rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5% last month, surpassing estimates of 0.3% [...]

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UBS Rolls Out Leveraged Cloud Computing ETN (LSKY)

Michael Johnston — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:00:18 +0000

UBS continued an aggressive expansion of its lineup of exchange-traded notes this week, debuting a product offering leveraged exposure to a hot corner of the technology sector. The launch of the ETRACS Monthly 2x Leveraged ISE Cloud Computing TR Index ETN (LSKY) comes exactly three months after First Trust debuted an ETF linked to the same index; SKYY began trading in early July. The new UBS ETN will seek to deliver monthly results that correspond to 200% of the change in the ISE Cloud Computing Index, a benchmark that consists of about 40 stocks. Cloud Computing 101 Cloud computing is a relatively new technology that is expected to grow quickly in coming years. Generally, cloud computing refers to the concept of sharing resources and software over the Internet. Basically, it allows end users to access data and storage services without being physically connected to the system that is delivering the [...]

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ETF Insider: A Week In The Green

Stoyan Bojinov — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:00:10 +0000

The last week was a welcome change of pace for investors, as markets generally cruised higher despite a lack of meaningful good news that traditionally accompanies such rallies. Attractive entry points finally drove some back into risky assets, though significant uncertainty remains over the outlook from here–especially with parts of Europe now precariously teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse. Actionable ETF Trade Ideas Last Week’s Actionable ETF Ideas Ticker Position Performance EWZ Short n/a XLK Long +5.4% UUP Long -0.8% Our picks from Monday’s Insider fared quite well this week. Our technical analysis of EWZ helped us to avoid from jumping into a losing trade, while our recommendation to long XLK turned into a very profitable trade in just a few short days. Below, we highlight how our trade ideas fared during the week [sign up for a free trial of ETFdb Pro to get actionable ETF ideas every [...]

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ETF Insider: Classic Greek Drama Unfolds

Stoyan Bojinov — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:48:04 +0000

U.S. equities got off to a rough start this week, opening lower and managing to climb out of the hole only in the final hours of trading. Fears of Greece defaulting are permeating every corner of the financial market as investor uncertainty continues to remain elevated and a lack of action from European lawmakers is only adding to the suspense. Wall Street bulls pushed indexes higher on Tuesday, also extending gains into Wednesday, although a quick wave of high-volume profit taking swept across the market in the in he final hour of the session. Gold has drifted lower over the past three days, however, the precious metal remains a safe haven and futures prices have held above key support at the $1,800 level. Checking In: Trading Ideas This week, our trading ideas included a short position in a South American equity fund, as well as long positions in a domestic [...]

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ETF Insider: The Dust Has Yet To Settle

Stoyan Bojinov — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:53:33 +0000

Global equity markets went on a wild ride during the month of August, and judging from September’s roaring start, many investors are probably scratching their heads in disbelief. At home, economic data indicators have started to show a trend of deceleration,while the debt crisis overseas seems to dominate headlines and spark sell-offs of all sorts ever since the debt drama at home “passed”. Gold continues to thrive in this uncertain environment as prices for the precious metal hit $1,923 an ounce last week amidst the seemingly escalating chaos. Weekly Outlook The coming week will feature a considerable amount of economic data releases both on the home front and overseas. Inflation data from the United Kingdom and a New Zealand bank rate decision may potentially spark waves of volatility in the currency markets. At home, retail sales and consumer price index will be some of the more important releases that have [...]

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ETFs & Sector Rotation: Large Cap, Small Cap, Or International?

Michael Johnston — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:00:34 +0000

Sector rotation techniques have been around for decades, a relatively simple strategy often used by investors seeking to capitalize on short-term mispricings in order to generate alpha. In its most basic form, sector rotation involves segmenting the equity universe by industry, and moving into and out of various sectors depending on relative attractiveness from a valuation perspective. The idea is to overweight the sectors that are attractively priced, and underweight those that are deemed to be overvalued. Those who are able to identify overbought and oversold sectors–or even broader trends that may favor high beta or low beta stocks–can beat the market by regularly shifting exposure [see also Nine Twists On Sector ETF Investing]. More recently, ETFs have become popular tools for investors implementing sector rotation strategies; instead of requiring investors to identify individual stocks with promising outlooks, a high level approach can be employed to achieve broad exposure to [...]

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ETF Insider: Prudent Buying After Panic Selling

Stoyan Bojinov — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:05:59 +0000

Investors poured into U.S. Treasuries last week as far worse than expected economic data from the manufacturing and housing sectors sent waves of anxiety through equity markets both in the U.S. and abroad. Surprisingly enough, amidst all the chaos even gold failed to climb much higher and the precious metal closed just above $1,540 for the week. Volatility in the energy market remains abundant as crude oil futures wildly fluctuated between $98 and $103 a barrel, managing to close just above the $100 level by the end of the trading week. Silver failed to regain the $40 level and futures contracts sank lower by about $2 throughout the week, closing at around $36.28 an ounce. As expected, the U.S. dollar continued to depreciate and we are cautiously holding our ground in anticipation of an equity-market rebound in the coming days. Against this backdrop, we see several technicals-based opportunities among the [...]

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