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.
Mutual fund investors will learn the hard way at the end of this year that you can never keep the tax man away for long.
In a move criticized by some industry experts, ProShare Advisors LLC plans to introduce 48 exchange traded funds that use leverage to provide short or magnified exposure to commodities and currencies.
It was the ETF Insider's index of the top 50 exchange traded funds' second-strongest month this year.
Tomorrow, WisdomTree Trust will debut an ETF offering exposure to small-cap stocks in emerging markets.
Exchange traded funds are becoming a must-have for individual investors, but few of them know exactly what they are, how they work or what makes them different from their mutual fund cousins, advisers observed.
Barclays has launched eight exchange-traded notes to track commodities on NYSE Arca today.
The Claymore/Zacks Dividend Rotation ETF will follow the Zacks Dividend Rotation Index from Zacks Investment Research Inc.
SPA ETFs, an affiliate of London & Capital, today launched its first U.S. equities-focused ETF on the American Stock Exchange.
State Street Global Advisors today launched three new fixed-income exchange traded funds on the American Stock Exchange.
