Featured Articles
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ETF Spotlight: ‘Guru’ Hedge Fund Clone
June 18th at 6:15pm by Tom Lydon
ETF Spotlight on the Global X Top Guru Holdings Index ETF (NYSEArca: GURU), part of an ongoing series. Assets: $53.4 million. Objective: The Global X Top Guru Holdings Index ETF tries to reflect the performance of the Top Guru Holdings Index, which is comprised of the top U.S. listed equity...
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Sell-Off in Municipal Bond ETFs May be Overdone
June 18th at 5:30pm by Tom Lydon
Investors, concerned over a cutback in Fed quantitative easing and higher rates, have been shifting away from municipal bond exchange traded funds, but the move may have been premature. The triple-A rated 10-year muni benchmark was hovering around 2.27% last Thursday, or up 46 basis points...
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ETF Fees: Competition is a Good Thing
June 18th at 4:30pm by Tom Lydon
The so-called fee war in the exchange traded fund space has helped slash annual investment costs on a number of fund products, and it looks like it is paying off for both providers and investors. Last September, Charles Schwab reduced its fees on a number of funds, including the Schwab U.S....
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State Street: Now, Never or Forever — Gold After the Fall
June 18th at 3:46pm by David Mazza -- State Street Global Advisors
After falling sharply over two days in mid-April, many investors are beginning to question the role that gold should play in their portfolio. Putting this sell-off into context will comfort some, but others will ask if they can still count on gold to be the all-weather asset that they expected...
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Rising Rate Fears Keep Stock ETF Action Volatile
June 14th at 2:41pm by Tom Lydon
The equities markets and stock exchange traded funds experienced a tumultuous week on fears that central banks will cut back on their stimulus measures. The week started off quietly enough, but the lack of additional stimulus plans out of the Bank of Japan sent the Nikkie spiraling downward,...
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Asia-Pacific Region Records Fastest ETF Industry Growth
June 4th at 4:20pm by Tom Lydon
The exchange traded fund industry has experienced explosive growth in the United States, with around $1.5 trillion in assets under management. The Asia-Pacific region is currently the fastest growing market for the exchange traded fund business. “ETFs offer an easy access to Asia which can...
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Plunging Aussie Not Yet Helping Equity ETFs
June 3rd at 6:00pm by Tom Lydon
Export-dependent economies are supposed to benefit from weak currencies. That is conventional wisdom, it explains Japan’s ongoing efforts to weaken the yen and the problems that has caused for other export economies from Brazil to Germany to South Korea. One country that is not yet reaping the...
