ETF Trends Lists Top Performing ETFs for November
November 30, 2005 – November was an excellent month for most world markets. Emerging Markets, South Korea and Latin America lead the pack with 7-10% gains. Tech ETFs rebounded nicely from the declines in October and Transportation stocks... Continue Reading »

More Money Flowing to ETFs Than Mutual Funds
November 30, 2005 – Investors have been been voting with their feet recently by putting more money into exchange-traded funds than into mutual funds, Dow Jones Newswires reports. In the week ended Nov. 22, domestic equity mutual funds suffered outflows of... Continue Reading »

Foreign ETFs Are Not Riskier Than U.S. Funds
November 29, 2005 – Investors in the U.S. are still under-allocated in global stocks. Christine Benz of Morningstar does a great job of busting the myth that Foreign-Stock Funds Are Riskier than U.S. Funds. "Of all of the investing myths... Continue Reading »

Future Wealth Management Must Include ETFs
November 28, 2005 – Maybe you can’t hear that big sucking sound now, but in the next twelve months the media will be talking about money shifting from conventional mutual funds to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).  Tyler Mordy, Research... Continue Reading »

Retail ETFs Set to Move as Positive Holiday Shopping Season Develops
November 26, 2005 – The Retail and Consumer Discretionary SPDR (XLY) and the Retail HOLDRs (RTH) might attract some attention in the coming weeks. Time Warner, Home Depot, Disney, Target, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart are just some of the... Continue Reading »

Natural Resource and Latin American ETFs Lead the Pack YTD
November 24, 2005 – As we wrap up 2005, look who the best performing Exchange Traded Funds are for the year: Updated 11/23/2005 Top Performing ETFs by YTD Performance View Bottom | More 4 WEEKSYTD1 Year3 Year5 Year10 Year ——— Click on column... Continue Reading »

Schwab - Sophisticated ETF Strategies Grow in Popularity
November 24, 2005 – Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are becoming more popular with advisors who have active management disciplines. With few mutual funds able to beat their benchmarks, advisors are able to utilize ETFs and more control of... Continue Reading »

2006 Will Be The Year of the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)
November 22, 2005 – Somebody once told me that if you don’t change you’ll be left in the tar pits with the rest of the mastodons. Investors, financial advisors and retirement plan sponsors are facing a tipping point regarding... Continue Reading »

New Home Building ETFs Offer the Ability to Play Both Sides of the Housing Market
November 21, 2005 – The debate about the easing of a housing bubble continues.  But whether you are on the side that believes there is a bubble and it is going to burst or on the side that... Continue Reading »

ETFtrends.com Introduces Weekly ETF Performance Report
November 18, 2005 – ETF Trends is proud to introduce a weekly ETF performance report.  Along with the daily news and commentary and profiling of various asset classes, indsutry groups and global regions, this tool will help guide... Continue Reading »

Take a Look at South Korean ETF (EWY) as Bush and World Leaders Converge on South Korea
November 18, 2005 – The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum has given South Korea a chance to show off a little. It has become the third-largest economy in Asia after Japan and China, and enjoying gross domestic product growth of... Continue Reading »

There’s a Case for Avoiding Bond ETFs and Bond Funds
November 17, 2005 – Morningstar points out reasons to invest in bond mutual funds over bond exchange traded funds in the article, "Think Twice Before Buying Bond ETFs".  While there are some points to the article, the most... Continue Reading »

Gold ETFs Hit New Highs as Gold Closes in on $500
November 17, 2005 – The success of the gold ETFs has helped the physical gold market, as the demand for gold investing has increased, so has the price. Gregg Greenberg of TheStreet.com reviews the one year anniversary for... Continue Reading »

State Street Global Advisors Continues to Battle for ETF Shelf Space
November 16, 2005 – State Street Global Advisors Launches Nine New Exchange-Traded Funds including a S&P dividend fund and three financial sector funds. Financial services stocks have been some of the top performers in the last month and State... Continue Reading »

Portfolio Head at Yale Cites Good Reasons Why Mutual Funds Will Continue to Lag ETFs
November 15, 2005 – David Swenson, head of the $15 billion Yale endowment, has quite an impressive track record - 16% annually over the past 20 years.  He won’t divulge his philosophy or holdings, but he doesn’t mind... Continue Reading »

Why Buy a Mutual Fund That Only Buys ETFs?
November 14, 2005 – More and more mutual fund managers are incorporating exchange traded funds into their actively managed mutual funds, but one fund company is using only ETFs! No stocks?  They seem to be beating their benchmark,... Continue Reading »

Transportation ETF Takes Off Following Lower Oil Prices
November 9, 2005 – After oil prices reached highs this year, the price recently dropped from $70 to under $60 a barrel.  Though this may not be good for the oil and energy companies, the sector... Continue Reading »

With Most Micro-cap Funds Closed, Micro-cap ETFs Are a Solid Choice
November 9, 2005 – Micro-cap fund managers have been closing their doors after the big run-up in 2003-2005. The logical alternative for investors looking to grab hold of a diversified group of stocks in this space (market capitalizations... Continue Reading »

ETFs Giving Conventional Mutual Funds a Run For Their Money
November 9, 2005 – ETFs now account for a third of all index fund assets, up from 9% in 2000. The Wall Street Journal reports that "in less than three years, the total number of ETFs has jumped nearly 70 percent, to... Continue Reading »

We’re Still Waiting for Actively Managed ETFs
November 8, 2005 – Actively managed ETFs still aren’t here. Morningstar calls them the Holy Grail of ETFs and recently outlined the pros and cons. In the end, will they be worth waiting for? One of the key advantages... Continue Reading »

Japanese Markets and ETFs Hitting Highs
November 2, 2005 – Here is another example of global market opportunities and how ETFs play a part. Japan’s economy is on the rebound and so are the markets.  The broadmarket TOPIX index reached a five-year high today, largely... Continue Reading »

European Investing using Exchange Traded Funds
November 1, 2005 – With great investing opportunities outside the U.S., ETFs make global investing easier and provide a way to reach growing areas around the world.  Look at Europe, some say there is low growth in the... Continue Reading »