ETF Nerd Digs Into Diversification
By Toroso Asset Management In December of 2017, we introduced the ETF Nerd with our focus on the concentration of the ETF industry.…
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Reducing Stock-Level Risk With Equal-Weight Funds
Equal weight, the index methodology that assigns approximately the same weights to all of the benchmark’s components, is one of the oldest…
Equal-Weight Indexing Has Been a Better Long-Term ETF Play
The biggest ETFs have been getting all the attention over the years as investors grouped into these traditional market capitalization-weighted plays, but…
The Evolution of the ETF Industry
By Mark Matthews – Investment Research Analyst, CLS Investments The exchange traded fund (ETF) industry has experienced rampant growth, expansion, and innovation since…
PowerShares by Invesco Finalizes Guggenheim ETF Deal
One of the largest ETF issuers just got bigger. Invesco solidified its position as a leader in the ETF industry on Monday,…
ETF Industry Heats Up Following PowerShares Acquisitions
The ETF industry is growing more competitive as companies around the globe try to quickly expand to tap into trillions of dollars…
Equal-Weight ETFs Are a Better Long-Term Play
Investors who are seeking to build out a diversified long-term investment portfolio should consider enhancing returns through equally weighted exchange traded funds.…
Potential Headaches for Traditional Cap-Weighted Index ETF Investors
Index ETFs have been a popular play this year, with the ETF industry attracting another year of record inflows, but as investors…
Reconfigure Healthcare Exposure With Smart Beta ETFs
The equal-weight methodology is one of the oldest iterations of alternative indexing and can even be considered a forefather of smart beta.…
Guggenheim Slashes Industry’s First Smart Beta ETF Fees In Half
In a big announcement Thursday, Guggenheim Investments revealed it would reduce the management fee of the $13 billion Guggenheim S&P 500® Equal Weight…
A S&P 500 ETF Celebrates 14-Years of Outperformance
Long-term investors who are less wary of short-term twists and turns should look to an equal-weight S&P 500 exchange traded fund that…
This ETF Play Could Be a Better Way to Access S&P 500
Many turn to the S&P 500 to gain core market investment exposure, but an exchange traded fund that tracks an equal-weight S&P…
Equal-Weight Works For These Sector ETFs
With smart or strategic beta exchange traded funds garnering so much attention (and plenty of assets, too), it is worth remembering that…
ETFs Tracking Smaller Companies Gain Ground
As the equities markets rally off the February lows, small-cap stock exchange traded funds have sprinted ahead of their larger counterparts. Since…