ETFs

The big guns -- from PIMCO to State Street -- are now squaring off in one of the tiniest slices of the fund business. But it's not clear yet if there will be a payoff.

UBS has launched the ETRACS DJ-UBS Commodity Index 2-4-6 Blended Futures ETN

State Street Global Advisors last night cleaned house at the 8th Annual Global ETF Awards Dinner held in New York, taking home a series of industry awards.

Guggenheim Investments has added three new exchange-traded funds to its BulletShares lineup.

“The goal is obviously to outperform” market returns and market benchmarks, in general, said Jim Ross, president of SSgA Funds Management.

BlackRock iShares Exchange Traded Funds business has launched a suite of high yield corporate debt ETFs.

The nascent active exchange-traded fund space, currently populated by PIMCO, AdvisorShares and Guggenheim Partners, may soon get a new entrant.

A number of exchange-traded fund companies are creating a trade association to provide education about the $1.2 trillion industry.

Investors can’t seem to get enough of exchange-traded funds and notes, a fact that has regulators on high alert and ETP providers racing to come up with ever-more creative offerings to differentiate themselves from the competition. But who is looking out for investors?

But despite the inflows and booming equity markets during the first quarter, revenue declined $33 million, or 1 percent, to $2.2 billion.

J.P. Morgan Commodity ETF Services has filed with the SEC to list on the NYSE Arca an exchange-traded fund based on physical ownership of copper.

Exchange-traded funds took in more than $14 billion bringing their total assets to $1.2 trillion as of March 31, according to State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA’s) ETF Snapshot report for March 2012.

Van Eck Global’s Market Vectors ETF Trust has launched an exchange-traded fund that will focus on U.S.-issued “Fallen Angels”—corporate bonds that were rated investment grade at the time of their original issuance but which have since been downgraded to below investment grade status.

Teucrium launches a family of funds that is jointly dubbed the Teucrium Agricultural Fund. That fund is seeded by the operation of single-product funds, including the Teucrium Corn Fund, Teucrium Soybean Fund, Teucrium Sugar Fund and Teucrium Wheat Fund.

If you don't understand what you're buying and you don't understand what you're getting into, avoid this investment like paying off your home mortgage depends on it.

Olney, M.D.-based Arrow Investment Advisors has named Joseph Cunningham to the newly created role of Director of Capital Markets.

The Exchange Traded Products industry recorded its best ever start to a year, attracting net new assets of $67.3 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a 57% increase over the $42.8 billion gained in the first quarter of 2011, according to the Q1 2012 ETP Landscape Report released by BlackRock.

Exchange-traded funds are off to a strong start, with record first-quarter inflows reaching $55.9 billion.

Financial advisors such as Matthew Tuttle represent the front lines of raging conflict between mutual funds and exchange-traded products, in particular over management fees and related costs.

Discount brokerage Charles Schwab Corp is reviewing whether to add a warning when a customer is about to trade certain exchange-traded products, in one of the strongest warnings yet for retail investors about these esoteric securities.