Exchange-traded funds potentially make it easier for financial advisers to build a well-diversified portfolio that limits volatility by spreading risk. But the proliferation of more exotic ETFs — particularly leveraged and inverse ETFs — could blunt their diversification potential.
More financial advisers are now using exchange-traded funds than ever, but these investments still have a long way to go before they'll occupy a significant chunk of clients' portfolios.
WisdomtTree Investments Inc. today launched an exchange-traded fund for investors who want to maintain exposure to international stocks without losing out to a rising U.S. dollar that could eat into returns.
The rally in commodities over the past few weeks has been closely linked to the weakness of the U.S. dollar, according to Charl Malan, who is part of the investment team managing $1.7 billion in two commodity funds at Van Eck Global.
John Hancock Funds LLC will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the next few weeks plans to launch actively managed exchange-traded funds, according to an official at the firm.
Exchange-traded commodities funds will continue to prosper despite regulators' concerns that they may have helped fuel the run-up in oil prices last year.
With The Vanguard Group Inc. on its heels, Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC today launched new actively managed exchange-traded funds.
Now that exchange-traded funds can come to market with relatively little fuss, providers are readying to launch emerging-markets ETFs in what industry observers call an ill-advised attempt to jump on the latest trend.
Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC last week launched its first actively managed exchange-traded fund.
iShares, a unit of Barclays Global Investors, today launched an emerging-markets exchange-traded fund: the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Eastern Europe Index Fund (ESR).
The following is the text of an email that Bruce Bond, chairman and CEO of Invesco Powershares, sent earlier this week describing his new role:
Assets in the exchange-traded fund industry totaled about $689 billion as of Oct. 30, down 0.8%, or $5.3 billion, from a month earlier, according to a report last week from State Street Global Advisors.
Van Eck Global today launched its second gold exchange-traded fund, <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091111/FREE/911119983>just as the price of gold was surging to a new all-time high.</a>
Exchange-traded-fund providers in the coming year will have to focus on making sure financial advisers understand their products — and how to use them in client portfolios — as they anticipate increased scrutiny from regulators and the media, according to participants at an ETF round table last week at <i>InvestmentNews'</i> New York offices.
Exchange-traded-fund providers in the coming year will have to focus on making sure financial advisers understand their products — and how to use them in client portfolios — as they anticipate increased scrutiny from regulators and the media, according to participants in today's ETF round table at InvestmentNews' New York offices.
On the day before it is set to roll out its first set of exchange-traded funds, The Charles Schwab Corp. announced a bold move today: the funds will be made available commission-free for clients with Schwab accounts.
Just weeks after launching its first commodities exchange-traded fund, a unit of Jefferies & Co. Inc. today launched two similar ETFs: one focused on agriculture and another on industrial metals.
