ETFs

U.S. exchnage-traded funds assets totaled $1.12 trillion as of May 31 – up 7% year-to-date, according to the ETF Snapshot May 2012 released by State Street Global Advisors.

Global X Funds has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for two more ETFs employing the same investment strategy as its GURU ETF, which debuted this week.

With Apple shifting its entire retirement plan portfolio to ETFs, will more follow?

Investors poured an estimated $4.2 billion into U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds and notes during the month of May, bringing total year-to-date inflows into exchange-traded products to $63.1 billion.

The AlphaClone Alternative Alpha ETF has begun trading today, launched by Exchange Traded Concepts and AlphaClone LLC.

Investors' search for yield have driven them out of equity mutual funds and into fixed income ETFs.

Total exchange-traded fund assets fell in April by $6.23 billion to $1.187 trillion, according to data from the Investment Company Institute.

A new breed of advisors and asset managers, dubbed ETF Investment Strategist, has emerged, according to research from iShares.

UBS Investment Bank has rolled out a pair of ETRACS Exchange Traded Notes linked to the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index and the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index.

AdvisorShares has partnered with explorer, social entrepreneur and environmental advocate Philippe Cousteau, Jr. to launch AdvisorShares Global Echo ETF (NYSE: GIVE), an active, multi-manager socially responsible fund.

The company has listed five exchange-traded funds on the London Stock Exchange.

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Institutional investors that began using exchange-traded funds for manager transitions, rebalancing and other tactical applications are increasingly using these products for more strategic purposes.

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF suffered the largest net redemption of the group followed by iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Fund.

ETFs are wildly popular these days but far too many advisors are making one or more of these 10 common, portfolio-sapping mistakes. Are you?

Exchange-traded funds remain the young darlings of the alternative investing universe and one company is enjoying a booming business introducing this format to asset managers.

The exchange-traded product market saw net new assets of $600 million in April, according to BlackRock.

ETFs are all the rage these days but some inexperienced investors have lost their shirts. Here's what you need to know to avoid getting burned.

It's the distribution platform driving the battle between these two investment products.

Encouraged by strengthening fundamentals, ETF investors are riding calculated risks to fatter returns.