Case Study: International Bond ETFs
Portfolio diversification calls for spreading investment risk across asset classes and geographies. In many cases, exchange traded funds offer investors the opportunity to do both.
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Advisors Moving to ETFs
67% of financial advisors polled in a recent survey cite ETFs as the most innovative investment product in 20 years and most are moving their clients into Exchange Traded Funds.
ProShares Launches Short ETFs – Energy and Financials
ProShares added two ETFs to their Short line-up this week – Short Oil & Gas (DDG) and Short Financials(Amex: SEF). Both ETFs have a daily objective of 100% of the inverse of their benchmark index.
Oil Hits New Highs
Oil prices spiked last week creating new concerns about the economic outlook and bringing stock prices down.
Commodity ETFs grow 110%
Assets under management in Commodity ETFs grew 110% to $37.2 billion according to a report issued by Deutsche Bank (DB) yesterday.
Oil ETFs | USO, OIL, USL
ETF investors can establish positions on the price of oil as we first discussed in our March ETF Commentary post Oil ETFs.
PowerShares Adds NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite and Nasdaq Internet ETFs
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC, a leading provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today the anticipated listing of a NASDAQ-100 BuyWrite portfolio and a Nasdaq Internet portfolio. Both new ETFs are expected to begin trading June 12, 2008, on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
Tech ETFs Pull Ahead | QQQQ, IXN, XLK, IYW, VGT
After hitting a low back in March, technology ETFs have bounced back along with the market. In mid-April, tech ETFs pulled ahead of the broader market which has been weighed down by concerns about the economic outlook and uncertainty around the financial sector.
Vanguard to Split Shares for Three Exchange-Traded Funds
Vanguard® Total Stock Market Index Fund, Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund, and VanguardExtended Market Index Fund today declared a 2-for-1 split of their ETF shares.
Telecom ETFs come back
Telecom was the strongest performing sector last week as the stocks continue to make a come back from their March lows. The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Telecommunications Sector Index Fund IYZ is one of the leading telecom sector ETFs.