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  • Going Postal: Turning USPS Woes Into an Investment Opportunity

    January 26, 2012

    Advisors don’t only have to bemoan the U.S. Postal Service’s decline — there are ways to profit from it. It’s worth at least considering an investment in ETFs that have exposure to companies like FedEx and UPS, according to an analysis by S&P Capital IQ.

  • Active ETF for Global Opportunities Set to Launch

    January 25, 2012

    AdvisorShares Investments, a sponsor of actively managed ETFs, announced that the AdvisorShares Accuvest Global Opportunities ETF will begin trading on Jan. 26.

  • State Street Uses Cloud to Help Create ETFs

    January 25, 2012

    State Street Corporation said its exchange-traded fund service, Total ETF, will use cloud-based technology to fully automate the development and management of a fund from basket creation through to trade processing and settlement.

  • Emerging Markets Lose Favor With ETF Investors

    January 25, 2012

    Investors pulled $4 billion out of exchange-traded funds that invested in emerging markets last year, making them the least-popular form of ETFs in 2011.

  • Vanguard Calls for Responsibility in Developing New ETFs

    January 23, 2012

    Vanguard Chief Investment Officer Gus Sauter challenged the ETF industry to be responsible in developing new products and called for greater efforts to educate investors about ETFs.

  • The Sweet, Short Life of Synthetic ETFs

    January 20, 2012

    You’ve heard of structured products. These largely were (and are) complex securities based on lots of streams of cash in underlying loans whose flows were not well predicted. Now come “synthetic” ETFs, where interest-rate swaps and other derivative products are used to replicate the performance of a securities index.

  • Backwardation & Contango: An ETF Glossary

    January 19, 2012

    Exchange-traded funds are like stocks. Except they're not. They’re sort of like mutual funds, but not really. Here’s a glossary of ETF terms to help clear things up.

  • Inverting Reality of ETFs

    January 18, 2012

    There’s logic in thinking that trading in funds that promise double or triple the movement of the market will exacerbate the swings that occur. But it would invert reality.

  • ETFs Grow 20.6%; NYSE Claims Most New Listings

    January 12, 2012

    The number of listed exchange-traded funds grew 20.6% in 2011 and the number of listed exchange-traded notes grew 53.8%, according to U.S. figures developed by the Exchange-Traded Fund Association.

  • BlackRock to List Eight ETFs on BATS Market

    January 12, 2012

    The world's largest asset management firm will be the first company to list securities on a BATS Global Markets electronic venue that now competes for listings on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market.

  • PIMCO: Total Return ETF Will List on March 1

    January 11, 2012

    A date is set for the exchange-traded equivalent of the world's largest mutual fund to get going.

  • ETF Growth Slows in 2011

    January 5, 2012

    Growth in exchange-traded funds fell to 5.1% in 2011, from 27.5% in 2010 and 46.7% in 2009, according to figures released by the Exchange Traded Fund Association. The category with the biggest gains: fixed-income funds.

  • In 2011, ETFs Bond With Treasuries

    January 4, 2012

    If you had the foresight to invest heavily for your clients in Pimco's 25-year zero coupon U.S. Treasury exchange-traded bond fund last year, they would have realized a 51.9% return on their investment. The fund was the best-performing exchange-traded fund in 2011.

  • Here Comes The Contraction — And It Could Be Good For Us

    January 4, 2012

    Examining the wisdom of using exchange-traded funds to weather macroeconomic headwinds.

  • Knight Capital Group Launches Two Active ETFs

    December 27, 2011

    Knight Capital Group has launched two actively managed exchange-traded funds run by subsidiary Astor Asset Management. The funds are the Astor Active Income ETF Fund and the Astor SP Growth ETF Fund.