Rydex Investments of Rockville, Md., is hoping that a glitzy new marketing campaign that includes television commercials will help it overcome the head start its chief rival has taken with regard to inverse and leveraged exchange traded funds.
Although exchange traded funds increasingly provide an inexpensive way for financial advisers to gain access to international markets, analyzing such ETFs is more difficult than analyzing those that stick to domestic securities.
Barclays Global Investors has launched eight new iShares international exchange traded funds.
ProShare Advisors launched two short exchange traded funds that are designed to generate inverse performance compared to the markets in China and Japan.
Rydex Investments has launched six ExpressShares exchange traded funds on the American Stock Exchange today, bringing the size of its ETF family to 30.
Mutual fund investors will learn the hard way at the end of this year that you can never keep the tax man away for long.
In a move criticized by some industry experts, ProShare Advisors LLC plans to introduce 48 exchange traded funds that use leverage to provide short or magnified exposure to commodities and currencies.
It was the ETF Insider's index of the top 50 exchange traded funds' second-strongest month this year.
Tomorrow, WisdomTree Trust will debut an ETF offering exposure to small-cap stocks in emerging markets.
Exchange traded funds are becoming a must-have for individual investors, but few of them know exactly what they are, how they work or what makes them different from their mutual fund cousins, advisers observed.
Barclays has launched eight exchange-traded notes to track commodities on NYSE Arca today.
The Claymore/Zacks Dividend Rotation ETF will follow the Zacks Dividend Rotation Index from Zacks Investment Research Inc.
SPA ETFs, an affiliate of London & Capital, today launched its first U.S. equities-focused ETF on the American Stock Exchange.
Hundreds of exchange traded funds may not see the light of day, because seed capital for such funds is drying up.
State Street Global Advisors today launched three new fixed-income exchange traded funds on the American Stock Exchange.
ETF assets increased by 9.7% in September, as 15 new funds were launched, according to State Street.
More than two years after the launch of the first variable annuity based on exchange traded funds, VA providers and financial advisers are still ap-proaching the product with caution.
PowerShares will expand its family of fixed-income exchange traded funds on Oct. 11.
More than two years after the launch of the first variable annuity based on exchange traded funds, VA providers and financial advisers are still ap-proaching the product with caution.
Financial planners and investment advisers apparently are doing their jobs well — their clients and other individual investors are diversifying their investments as never before.
