• 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.

• 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.

• Middle East Exposure Offered in GCC Titans 40

  Investors can gain Middle East exposure through the recently launched Dow Jones GCC Titans 40 Index.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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..

• 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.

• Bad News Benefits

  As commodities rise and financials fall, investors look to ETFs as a way to leverage failing sectors.

• Value Play

  Huntington's Scott Frush uses exchange-traded funds exclusively to keep costs low and client satisfaction high.

• Hedge Funds Tap Leveraged ETFs

  Hedge funds have recently increased their investment in aggressive, exchange-traded funds.

• 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.

• Claymore ETF for Frontier Market

  Claymore Securities Inc., an exchange-traded fund provider, has launched the Claymore/BNY Mellon Frontier Markets Exchange Traded Fund.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Genworth Unveils New GIA

  New group of guaranteed income annuities invest in mutual funds or ETF portfolios in AssetMark's managed account platform.