Another filing for actively managed ETFs was made last week, an indication that 2008 might be the year investors can finally invest in them.
Van Eck Global launched trading of the Market Vectors–Coal ETF on the New York Stock Exchange today.
Assets invested in exchange traded funds grew by $32 billion, or 5.5%, to $608 billion in November.
The center features a search functionality that allows customers to identify ETFs that meet certain investment criteria.
European assets in ETFs surged 27% to €89 billion ($131.2 billion) in 2007, according to data released by Deutsche Bank.
The fund is designed to give investors exposure to investment-grade municipal bonds with a nominal maturity of 17 years or more.
Asset levels hit $13 trillion in December, gaining approximately $1.8 trillion from the beginning of the year.
The Vanguard Group has launched ETFs on the NYSE Arca today, which seek to track three MSCI Indexes.
The first U.S.-listed Chinese Real Estate ETF gives investors exposure to the Chinese real restate market.
While mutual funds continue to garner the lion's share of investment assets, their growth is trailing that of exchange traded assets and separately managed accounts.
Despite the drop in assets, 26 new ETFs were added to the market last month, brining the total number to 612.
Despite once having been seen as betraying financial advisers, The Vanguard Group Inc. of Malvern, Pa., continues to ratchet up efforts to court them.
On Dec. 20, the firm will list the PowerShares DJIA BuyWrite and S&P BuyWrite portfolios on NYSE Arca and the Nasdaq-100 BuyWrite Portfolio on Nasdaq.
The ETF seeks to track the total return performance of the Lehman Brothers High Yield Very Liquid Index.
The Investment Company Institute, the powerful mouthpiece of the mutual fund industry, is trying to torpedo the tax advantages of exchange traded notes, and industry insiders think that it has a pretty good chance of being successful.
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.
