ETFs

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management said it plans to close 13 ETFs, which represent less than 1% of Invesco PowerShares’ total assets.

Fiscal cliff? What fiscal cliff?

Brown Brothers Harriman launched a suite of ETFs designed to help clients access tools and reports through a single umbrella platform dubbed ETF Connect.

The exchange-traded funds space has had its fair share of successful launches and flameouts this year.

Fidelity Investments, the firm that lost its position as the biggest U.S. funds provider after ignoring exchange-traded products for years, is seeking to open an actively run ETF lineup starting with a corporate bond fund.

Exchange-traded funds saw inflows of $15.6 billion in November to bring year-to-date inflows to $154.0 billion, putting them on track to match or exceed 2008’s record-setting inflows, according to data from Morningstar.

In a remarkably short period, the playing field for the lowest-cost ETFs has changed dramatically.

Global exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product assets reached an all-time high of $1.9 trillion at the end of November 2012, according to figures from ETFGI’s monthly global ETF and ETP industry insights.

BlackRock’s latest November 2012 ETP Landscape Report paints a rosy picture for exchange-traded products heading into the New Year.

Investors withdrew money last month from Vanguard Group Inc.’s emerging-markets exchange-traded fund, the industry’s largest, after the firm said it would replace the fund’s index.

Looks like the "ETF fee war" is waging on.

The largest U.S. exchange-traded fund tracking municipal bonds touched the highest price since it began five years ago as investors speculated that tax rates will increase to help curb the federal deficit.

San Francisco's Charles Schwab Investment Management emerges as yet another firm seeking an alternative to traditional preservation methods, filing for an actively managed ETF that specifically seeks capital preservation and daily liquidity.

Exchange-traded funds hit a speed bump last month after coasting through much of the year in the black.

Has the bloom come off the inverse and the leveraged exchange-traded fund? "I think it really has," said Michael Rawson, ETF analyst for Morningstar.

Investors will continue to pour money into funds, especially into target date funds and ETFs, according to a report on mutual funds from Tiburon Strategic Advisors.

Negative investor sentiment still plague mutual funds and ETFs, which both saw outflows in the week ended Nov. 14.

Charles Schwab has launched a new site for exchange-traded fund retail investors dubbed the ETF Education Exchange, which aims to “close the knowledge gap in ETFs by aggregating educational content, research and market insights from ETF industry leaders”.

ETFs saw assets up by 21.5% since last year as of the last day of October, attracting over $133 billion of inflows over the year. That's up from $99.8 billion as of October 2011.

Global exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products experienced inflows $13.5 billion of net new assets in October, which is lower than the US$40 billion of net inflows in September 2012, according to data from ETFGI.