ETFs

State Street Global Advisors has launched two equity exchange-traded funds designed to track MSCI Global Equity Indices, with one focusing on emerging markets and the other widely covering both developed and developing countries.

This is the week that actively managed exchange-traded funds get their biggest booster shot since they first arrived, less than five years ago: Bill Gross and PIMCO get into the game.

That amounts to two-thirds of the value gained in the past year. And was driven by interest in and appreciation of...domestic stocks.

Deborah Fuhr is launching her own firm devoted to research and consulting in the exchange trade market, called ETF Global Insight.

Affluent retail investors are pulling assets away from traditional mutual funds in favor of exchange-traded funds and other alternatives, resulting in significant market consolidation, according to new findings by Cogent Research.

Exchange-traded fund developer Invesco PowerShares Capital Management plans to list two ETFs that will give investors access to what it calls “high-beta strategies,’’ covering the emerging and international developed markets.

Due to internal company limits on the number of exchange traded notes it can have circulating in securities market, Credit Suisse said it has temporarily suspended issuance of the high volatility product VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short-Term ETNs.

U.S. Bancorp Fund Services has launched its first multiple series trust focused on exchange-traded funds in a partnership with Exchange Traded Concepts, an advisor that helps money managers launch their own private label ETF-products.

Prompted by a delay in a big trade at a popular ETF, the SEC is taking a closer look at a possible connection between high-frequency traders and hedge funds jumping in and out of ETFs, and instances where ETF trades fail to settle on time.

BlackRock has launched seven iShares exchange-traded funds, including its first fixed-income ETFs to focus on specific industries and mortgage-backed securities.

ProShares Trust has expanded Citigroup’s regulatory administration services contract to include the alternative investment manager’s exchange traded funds.

Following ProShare Advisors' roll out last month of the first 30-year breakeven inflation exchange-traded funds, the company now offers a 10-year version.

January saw a significant jump in capital flowing into fixed-income exchange-traded products, according to the latest “ETP Landscape” report published by the BlackRock Investment Institute.

Why SPY is the Law & Order of exchange-traded funds, while SPDR Dow Jones Total Market is more like Boston Common.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.