ETFs

It isn’t every day that you get your opinion validated by the likes of Jeremy Siegel, the “Wharton wizard,” market commentator and senior investment strategy advisor for Wisdomtree ETFs. Siegel delivered a very bullish talk at Sourcemedia’s ETF 360 conference in New York.

The fund will hold fixed weights of gold, silver, platinum and palladium.

The streamlining service handles sales of restricted shares.

Asset held in exchange-traded funds increased 10.6% in September.

The fund gives investors exposure to China’s A-shares market.

TD Ameritrade’s bold move to offer 101 commission-free ETFs is likely to bolster the trend.

Latin America and Asia are now an integral part of large funds’ bond and equity strategies.

Scott Ebner joins State Street in this key role from NYSE Euronext.

New tool approximates costlier mutual fund portfolios in exchange traded funds.

Mornginstar ETF Director Scott Burns said the firm might remove leveraged and inverse ETFs from its star rating system.

The company announced Wednesday it launched seven exchange-traded funds based on Russell indexes.

The company calls the two sectors “important fixed income areas.”

The high-yield market has been going great guns this year, but there’s a new caveat for those kicking the tires: a slower-than-expected recovery.

Fixed-income and commodity ETFs move up as equity prices slide.

The fixed-income trend is leading the bumper inflows for bond-heavy fund families, while investors continue to punish American Funds for not being “bear-proof.”

The SPDR S&P Global Natural Resources ETF began trading on the NYSE Arca on Tuesday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission Friday approved the expansion of its post-Flash Crash circuit breaker program to include all stocks in the Russell 1000 Index and a test group of exchange-traded funds.

Vanguard has launched eight index mutual funds and nine exchange-traded funds based on S&P domestic stock benchmarks.

New report by Allianz says U.S. pension market is expected to see slower growth.

According to a survey by Cogent, among the top five providers of exchange-traded funds, Vanguard is the only one to make gains in 2010, climbing 10 percentage points to become a “true iShares challenger.”