Bank of America Merrill Lynch has emerged as the largest institutional user of exchange traded funds, with holdings of more than $50bn, according to a report that for the first time breaks down the ownership ...

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management wants to capture retail investors' growing interest in exchange traded funds by expanding its offering of commission-free ETF savings plans in Europe. Around 30,000 ETF ...

Lessons learned from the financial crisis, part 94: if an investment is known by a three-letter abbreviation, it is probably toxic. So sell it ASAP. Or rather, PDQ. I offer this rule of thumb as a service ...

It sounds compelling enough: Much of the $1.7 trillion that poured into bond funds and exchange-traded funds since the beginning of 2008 is now about to make a U-turn into equities, in what Wall Street ...

Outflows from U.S. bond mutual funds and exchange traded funds has accelerated in August, according to a new report by TrimTabs, as fears grow of the threat that rising yields pose for the U.S. economy....

Prices may not always reflect underlying assets

Keen on Japanese stocks? This fund offsets the currency risk.

Mutual and exchange-traded funds hemorrhaged a record volume of bonds in June, according to a fresh report by TrimTabs Investment Research, as investors fear the impact of a scaling back of the U.S. Federal ...

A record deficit in platinum supplies is set to push prices higher, as unrest sweeps the South African mining industry and demand is boosted by the auto sector and a new exchange traded fund (ETF), according ...

ETF Spotlight on the Guggenheim S&P Global Dividend Opportunities Index ETF (NYSEArca: LVL) , part of an ongoing series. Assets : $64.5 million. Objective : The Guggenheim S&P Global Dividend Opportunities ...

While stock market investors celebrate the ongoing stock market rally and the recent new highs recorded by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, shareholders of CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) are welcoming something ...

Investors rarely think about their tax bill when they invest. They conveniently forget all about the IRS until the end of the year - or even worse, they ignore taxes entirely until the eve of April 15th. ...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are the most important development for investors - and the fund industry - in decades.

Graham Tuckwell, the founder of the multi-billion-dollar financial empire ETF Securities, made headlines recently with his announcement that he's giving $50 million to Australian National University for ...

Investors were an unpredictable lot during 2012, but they at least were consistent in their preferred mode of action. Exchange-traded funds took in a record amount of new money, surpassing 2008 and sending ...

If you own a bond fund, dividend paying stock or ETF - and that seems to be everybody these days, especially those of us who are yield-hungry and aging - just remember: When rates go up, yields go down....

It’s no secret that there is an exchange traded fund price war raging on, with top providers aiming to offer the best product at the lowest price. Conventional wisdom tells us that this can be beneficial ...

With more states adding exchange traded funds to their 529 plans, the benefactors will be investors and their lower student loan bills.

As we barrel towards the Niagara Falls of all fiscal cliffs, investors seem fairly certain that additional volatility is in store for the next few months. What is less clear, however, are the strategies ...

Many advisors, institutions and investors use average daily trading volume to base investment decisions. However, the common notions of liquidity, specifically the term “illiquid,” can not be aptly applied ...

Big flows recently out of junk bond funds like HYG point to lessons on how not to trade ETFs.Headlines today focused on big outflows from the iShares iBoxx High Yield Bond ETF .

Following President Barack Obama's re-election, three investment sectors are worth playing via exchange-traded funds, Tom Lydon of Global Trends Investments said Thursday on CNBC.

While everyone can just sit back and enjoy the expense ratio cuts as the result of the so-called fee war, investors should still be wary of other costs to trading exchange traded funds.Expense ratios are ...

There is an emerging and overlooked user group of ETFs: mutual funds.ETFs have been seeing money move in the door while investors flee U.S. stock mutual funds. Also driving the inflows are mutual fund ...

An ETF that will likely squarely be in focus this week is centered on the Biotechnology industry, iShares Nasdaq Biotech (NasdaqGM: IBB). The ETF took a large hit on Friday, falling more than 3% and touching ...

The idea behind contrarian investing is certainly nothing new, as many investors – including some legendary ones – have been “going against the crowd” for decades. Warren Buffett was famously quoted saying ...

Even the most focused investors know that the best way to defend their portfolio against risk is to diversify their assets. This is even more true for commodity ETF investors, where too often funds claim ...

Make room in your freezers, have your fill of Burger King’s new bacon sundaes, slurp down those bacon bloody marys, and bunker down for – yes, you guessed it – the Porkocalypse. The masses are already ...

It’s surprising to me how many investors in significantly sized blocks of ETFs agree to trade at whatever price is offered to them. Essentially, it’s the equivalent to walking into a car dealership, without ...

The markets took a couple of hard hits last week as less than cheery news on the homefront and from overseas rocked investors’ confidence. After several weeks of anticipation, the Fed finally announced ...

French banking behemoth BNP Paribas has become the latest financial institution to jump into the ETF industry, rolling out an exchange-traded commodity product this week. The new STREAM S&P Dynamic Roll ...

The evolution of the ETF industry has spawned more than a handful of instruments allowing investors of all walks unprecedented access to virtually every corner of the global market. The wave of innovation ...

While we saw gold exchange traded funds attract robust safe-haven demand over last year, investors now favor the U.S. dollar over bullion as the go-to asset during this bout of Eurozone induced market ...

At times, it seems as if the number of ETFs available to U.S. investors will soon exceed the number of stars in the sky. That might be overstating things a bit, but the pace of expansion in the ETF industry ...

After a relatively dull week on Wall Street, the coming trading days will see the heat turned up on markets as a wealth of economic data will be reported from all over the world. But that is not to say ...

Innovation has become a common occurrence in the ETF industry in recent years, transforming the product lineup from a collection of blunt instruments into an arsenal of more than 1,400 investing tools. ...

Investors have enjoyed the bull market that has been 2012, as a number of asset classes have experienced marked gains. But many are also aware that the growth in major equity benchmarks could come to a ...

Apple (AAPL) has been one of the best performing stocks of the last several years, and has also become one of the most widely followed companies ever. The stock has been climbing sharply higher, recently ...

Russell rolled out two more products to add to its rapidly expanding suite of ETFs this week, launching two funds that specifically target stocks with high dividend yields. The Russell High Dividend Yield ...

Investors have been gradually increasing their risk appetite since the start of 2012 thanks to improving economic data and renewed optimism in the global recovery. Likewise, emerging markets are off to ...

If you’re still holding a commodities ETF that invests in front-month futures, it’s time to upgrade.Two major variables are predictors of commodity index returns: commodity weights and futures ...

The ETF industry has been experiencing exponential growth over the past few years, as we are now able to choose from more than 1,400 products with well over $1 trillion in combined assets. But as with ...

It’s hard to believe that the S&P 500 Index has been flat as a pancake since the start of the new millennium – in fact, we are still below the S&P’s starting price of 1,470 at the beginning of 2000. The ...

The news on Wall Street have been good while the price action in major indexes has been back-and-forth throughout the week. Stocks are looking to end the week on a high note after digesting better-than-expected ...

Few stocks receive more attention from the financial presses than Apple (AAPL), the tech giant that has made a remarkable recovery from life support in the early 1990s to become one of the largest companies ...

Though value investing never truly went out of style, it has certainly become an increasingly popular strategy over the past few years. Interest in dividend-paying stocks skyrocketed in 2011 as investors ...

PowerShares , one of the pioneers of the factor-driven ETFs, announced this week an expansion of its suite of international products. The company has rolled out two new ETFs that will target high beta ...

iShares continued to expand its suite of exchange-traded products this week with the debut of seven new bond ETFs. The new offering includes the first products available to U.S. investors that offer sector-specific ...