Q2 Market Review: Equities, Treasuries, Oil, Gold & Crypto
The major averages continued to tack on further gains in the 2nd quarter heading towards what could end up being the 10th…
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FlexShares Launches Active Bond ETF to Ride Rising Rate Environment
Northern Trust’s FlexShares has rolled out an actively managed ETF to help investors adapt to a changing interest rate environment ahead. FlexShares launched…
12 Treasury Bond ETFs with Thrust as Brexit Uncertainty Extends
U.S. Treasury bond exchange traded funds maintained their momentum Monday, with yields on benchmark 10-year notes nearing record lows, as investors continued…
20 Hot Intermediate-Term Bond ETFs
More investors are dabbling in tactical or alternative fixed-income options in anticipation of a rising interest rate environment or overweighting equities all…
ETF Investors May Be Shifting to Rally Mode
Despite Thursday’s pullback, exchange traded fund flows suggest investors are in a risk-on rally mode as ETFs that track safe-haven assets have…
Where ETF Investors Have Been Stashed Away in February
ETF industry continued to accumulate assets in February Global exchange traded products, which include both ETFs and exchange traded notes, gathered $9.4…
Bond ETF Investors Dive Back Into Risk
As equities markets bounce back and oil prices edge higher from a 13-year low, the rising risk-on sentiment has brought fixed-income investors…
Investors Can’t Get Enough of Treasury Bonds, ETFs
Exchange traded funds that track U.S. Treasuries have attracted inflows for 10 consecutive weeks, the longest period in almost five years, as…
BlackRock to Move Four iShares Bond ETFs
BlackRock’s (NYSE: BLK) iShares unit, the world’s largest issuer of exchange traded funds, and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) said Friday four iShares…
The Trickiness of ETF Diversification
According to Barry Ritholtz of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a frequent contributor to CNBC as well as Bloomberg, “the beauty of diversification is…
Corporate Bond ETFs Enjoy Best Month Ever
After the Federal Reserve stated it was standing pat for the time being in and riskier assets began to rally off the…
The Markets Know What The Analysts And Economists Don’t
The best economists on the planet regularly hamper the investing community. For example, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) acknowledged in…
Where Some of BOND’s Cash is Heading
In news that is far from surprising, the PIMCO Total Return ETF (NYSEArca: BOND) is losing assets in the wake of Bill…
ETF Building Blocks for a Core Bond Portfolio
Still reverberating in the fixed income world is last Friday’s news that Bill Gross has departed PIMCO, the bond house he founded,…