ETFs
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State Street Expects New Pacts to Boost Gold ETF
State Street Corp.'s gold-tracking exchange-traded fund stands to draw more assets from recent agreements that allow its use in futures and options contracts.
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Barclays to Offer Target-Date & Target Risk ETFs
Barclays is planning to launch a family of target-date and target-risk exchange-traded funds, drawing from its existing iShares.
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Middle East Exposure Offered in GCC Titans 40
Investors can gain Middle East exposure through the recently launched Dow Jones GCC Titans 40 Index.
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Vanguard Transfers Remaining ETFs to NYSE Arca
Vanguard has transferred 34 of its 38 exchange-traded funds to the NYSE Arca from the American Stock Exchange.
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A CEO Big on ETFs Isn't Too Keen on the Newer Models
The chief executive of Portfolio Solutions LLC has been using exchange-traded funds since long before the hype.
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Two Wind Energy ETFs Debut
Wind energy is the latest resource to be tapped by the ETF market as two products in this sector debuted..
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Mutual Funds Become Wrappers for ETFs in 401(k)s
Hennion and Walsh is introducing ETFs into 401k plans by wrapping them in mutual funds.
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Bad News Benefits
As commodities rise and financials fall, investors look to ETFs as a way to leverage failing sectors.
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Value Play
Huntington's Scott Frush uses exchange-traded funds exclusively to keep costs low and client satisfaction high.
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Hedge Funds Tap Leveraged ETFs
Hedge funds have recently increased their investment in aggressive, exchange-traded funds.
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Two New ETFs Target Nasdaq-Listed Stocks
Two new ETFs were launched on June 12 by Powershares. Both deploy strategies that target Nasdaq-listed stocks, with one focused on buy-writes and the other on exposure to Internet companies.
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Claymore ETF for Frontier Market
Claymore Securities Inc., an exchange-traded fund provider, has launched the Claymore/BNY Mellon Frontier Markets Exchange Traded Fund.
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ETFs Benefits Not Broadly Deployed by European Institutions
While 94% of European Investors in a recent survey use ETFs on broad market indices, just 19% have tapped ETFs that track more narrow subcategories in the equity market.
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SSgA Launches Spider U.,' Reveals Active ETF, Advisers' Attitudes: Majority Perceive ETFs as Most Innovative Investment
Although the summer has only just begun, it was "Back to School" last week here at a State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) seminar for financial advisers, on the finer points of exchange-traded funds.
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Bank of New York Mellon in Servicing Pact
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, a unit of Bank of New York Mellon Corp., has been chosen to serve exchange-traded funds in the WisdomTree Dreyfus family of currency ETFs.
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New ETFs Invest in Foreign Currencies
With the dollar beaten down—7% against the euro and 6% against the yen so far this year—fund companies are offering investors the opportunity to invest in exchange-traded funds that invest in foreign currencies.
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Dow Jones ETF Index Named 'Most Innovative'
Dow Jones Indexes was named the "Most Innovative ETF Index Provider of 2007" in the Americas at the 4th annual Global ETF Awards.
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Reader Survey: All You Need to Know to Succeed with ETFs
ETF assets are forecasted to exceed USD 2 trillion in 2011. Isn't it time you got a piece of the pie? As we plan for our upcoming ETF conference, we would love your feedback in an 8-question survey. -
New Income Fund from WisdomTree
WisdomTree Investments Inc. introduced an actively managed, exchange-traded fund.
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Genworth Unveils New GIA
New group of guaranteed income annuities invest in mutual funds or ETF portfolios in AssetMark's managed account platform.
