Grail Advisors LLC of San Francisco intends to enter the defined contribution market by offering actively managed, transparent equity exchange traded funds, said William Thomas, chief executive of the firm.
When you trade exchange traded funds, you can choose from two primary types of entries, depending on the chart pattern of the actual trade setup.
They may be gaining in popularity, but exchange traded funds are far from the perfect product.
Van Eck Associates Corp. today launched the first global-hard-assets exchange traded fund — Market Vectors-RVE Hard Assets Producers (HAP).
With new products emerging and a streamlined global regulatory regime on the horizon, the scope and popularity of exchange traded funds is growing.
Advisers are using ETFs in multiple ways, in both the core and satellite allocations, as well as in the active and passive slices of investors’ portfolios.
Industry insiders believe that the ETF slowdown is little more than a bump in the road and attributable more to sour markets than exchange traded funds themselves.
The exchange traded fund world got a little more exciting this year with the introduction of the first truly actively managed ETFs.
The boom in exchange traded funds appears to have come to an end.
In the biggest shakeout thus far, 25 exchange traded funds already have closed this year, indicating that this fast-growing sector of the fund industry may be settling down.
Fifteen HealthShares exchange traded funds will close as part of a reorganization of the 19 HealthShares ETFs.
A tax-exempt strategy that utilizes exchange traded funds investing in municipal bonds has been announced by Curian Capital.
U.S. exchange traded fund assets totaled about $575 billion as of June 30, down 5.4% from the beginning of the year.
Indexes apply environmental, social and governance performance factors to a U.S. fixed-income asset class.
Bear market funds seek positive returns in down markets, so it isn't surprising that they are mauling the competition and generating plenty of investor attention in the process.
The 10 international-sector SPDR ETFs are use as benchmarks a series of the S&P World ex-U.S. broad market indexes.
Mr. Weisbrod, president of Weisbrod Financial Services Inc. and Staar Financial Advisors Inc. of Pittsburgh, is launching sfamoney .com next month as part of an effort to provide advisers and retail investors with model ETF portfolios, commentaries and various other planning tools.
The GCC Titans 40 Index measures the performance of 40 stocks traded in five of the Gulf Cooperation Council nations.
The new ETF is designed to provide access to certain equity markets in the Middle East and North Africa.
Investors can bet on the price of oil going up or down or hedge other investments with the securities.
