ETFs

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INVESTING ETFS JUN 09, 2008
Once a mere curiosity, ETFs now outshine mutual funds

Exchange traded funds were an oddity at the start of the decade.

INVESTING ETFS JUN 09, 2008
Mutual fund big three will continue to dominate market

In 2018, the mutual fund business will look much like today's, industry experts predict.

INVESTING ETFS JUN 04, 2008
Three Vanguard ETFs split

Three exchange traded funds from The Vanguard Group Inc. declared a 2-for-1 stock split today.

INVESTING ETFS JUN 03, 2008
Gold Trust ETFs strengthen SEC, CFTC bond

The SEC approved trading in options on the Gold Trust shares and the CFTC approved trading in futures on them.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 26, 2008
Three ETF-of-ETFs are launched

Creating what may be a new product category, Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has launched three exchange traded funds that invest solely in other ETFs.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 26, 2008
Russia tempts advisers with equity choices

Russia's eight-plus-year economic expansion has spread into parts of the country's consumer and retail sectors, presenting a potentially new angle for participation among financial advisers and their clients.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 26, 2008
Training offered for new exchange traded products

Faced with waves of new exchange traded products, financial advisers are at a loss as to how best to put them to work, a dilemma that is leading product providers to offer more robust educational services.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 19, 2008
Cousins create firm with flat fees, passive investing

Bob Luxenberg was trying to decide where to invest several million dollars that he had earned building technology businesses in Silicon Valley when he unearthed his latest venture.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 14, 2008
WisdomTree, Dreyfus unveil non-U.S. ETFs

The ETFs will seek to earn current income reflective of money market rates available to U.S. investors in the specified country or region.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 05, 2008
Equal-weighted ETFs mark five-year anniversary

Introduced five years ago, the Rydex S&P Equal Weight Exchange Traded Fund opened the gates to investments pegged to indexes that use some measure other than market capitalization to determine company weightings.

INVESTING ETFS MAY 05, 2008
Why pick on exchange traded notes?

The time is drawing near for comments requested by the Department of the Treasury regarding changing the taxation of exchange traded notes and other prepaid forward contracts.

INVESTING ETFS APR 28, 2008
Advisers are taking defensive tack

Recent market volatility, and concerns over credit quality and availability, have caused many financial advisers to become more defensive in their portfolio strategies.

INVESTING ETFS APR 21, 2008
Active ETFs are, well, less active

If investors were expecting the first actively managed exchange traded funds to look anything like their mutual fund counterparts, they are probably disappointed by three ETFs that Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC introduced this month.

INVESTING ETFS APR 14, 2008
Barclays ads tout iShares - and advisers - to investors

Responding to advisers who complain that the iShares brand means little to their clients, Barclays Global Investors is modifying its marketing.

INVESTING ETFS APR 14, 2008
ETNs are enjoying steady growth

As more companies begin to offer exchange traded notes, it's beginning to look like the small but growing ETN universe could one day be a competitor to mutual funds and exchange traded funds.

INVESTING ETFS APR 14, 2008
Mutual fund seeks diversification through ETFs

The original thinking behind the development of the SmartGrowth ETF Lipper Optimal Growth Index Fund (LPGAX) was to create a viable alternative to traditional asset allocation models.

INVESTING ETFS APR 11, 2008
Actively managed ETF launched

Invesco PowerShares Capital Management also has launched an actively managed fixed-income ETF.

INVESTING ETFS APR 07, 2008
'New-product czar' needed, SEC commissioner says

SEC commissioner Paul S. Atkins is continuing his campaign for a "new-product czar" to shepherd products through the agency's Byzantine approval process.

INVESTING ETFS MAR 26, 2008
PowerShares ETF goes nuclear

PowerShares Global Nuclear Energy Portfolio is designed to track the overall performance of companies in the nuclear energy industry.

INVESTING ETFS MAR 25, 2008
SSgA starts ETF tracking global bond index

SSgA launched a new ETF that tracks Deutsche Bank’s DB Global Government ex-U.S. Inflation-Linked Bond Capped index.