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.
With the launch of the first-ever life cycle exchange traded funds, TDAX Funds Inc. plans to muscle in on the fast-growing life cycle mutual fund market.
The SPDR Lehman International Treasury Bond ETF began trading today, State Street Global Advisors announced.
The first state-specific municipal bond exchange traded funds began trading today, Barclays Global Investors announced.
Rydex has kicked off a web initiative to put investors in the know about exchange traded funds.
The five TDAX Independence ETFs are a joint venture between TD Ameritrade and XShares Advisors.
The ETF 50 Index increased 4.7% in September, marking its largest monthly gain this year.
The PowerShares International Listed Private Equity Portfolio has generated quite a lot of buzz.
Total assets of the 546 ETFs listed in the U.S. rose 3.7% to $507.11 billion in August.
The Vanguard Group yesterday filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer three index funds.
The firm, with $100 million in assets under management, focuses on introducing exchange traded funds.
Agustin “Gus” J. Fleites is now the president of IndexIQ Advisors, a new asset management subsidiary of IndexIQ.
Despite a downturn in private-equity returns, two new exchange traded funds providing investors access to that space may soon be launched. The proposed ETFs — one from PowerShares Capital Management LLC of Wheaton, Ill., and the other from Barclays Global Investors of San Francisco — would join what is the only private-equity ETF in existence: the PowerShares Listed Private Equity Fund.
U.S. ETF assets rose 13% in August, with inflows of $22.2 billion, according to a report by State Street Global Markets.
On average, the securities in the SPDR Lehman Municipal Bond ETF index have a credit quality of AA1/AAA.
The iShares S&P National Municipal Bond Fund from Barclays Global Investors won’t be the last.
Recent market volatility has been good for ProShare Advisors LLC. The gyrations have drawn attention to its 52 exchange traded funds, all of which use leverage to provide short or magnified exposure to various indexes.
Van Eck Global launched the Market Vectors-Agribusiness ETF on the American Stock Exchange today.
