by Bruce W. Fraser
This ultra-light metal may help advance the electric car and energy storage industries. Here's how to invest.
A new commodity exchange-traded fund's complex
mechanics and scanty track record means potential buyers will want to
study it very carefully.
Investors fed up with U.S. stocks' negative returns and paltry rates in today's fixed-income markets
are piling into exchange-traded funds that invest in high-yield
corporate bonds.
Betting against Treasury bonds was supposed to be the no-brainer
strategy for 2010. Instead, shorting government debt has brought steep
losses so far this year.
The investing world's current darlings, ETFs, get no love from 401(k) plans. Many advisors say the problem is simple: ETFs just aren't a good match for 401(k)s.
by Marla Brill
Were ETFs victims or culprits that day, when they were jolted more than other kinds of equities?
One of top-performing exchange-traded funds so far in July tracks Chinese real estate companies.
An ETF launched today that follows the performance of lithium producers and battery makers is part of a trend in which new ETFs are tracking more obscure parts of the financial markets.
The chief beneficiary of investors' current interest in gold funds has
been the $50.6 billion SPDR Gold Shares. Now BlackRock Inc.
is making a serious bid to change that.
by Jerilyn Klein Bier
Learn what exchange traded funds can offer SRI investors-and a few caveats to watch out for, too.
by C. Michael Carty and Julia M. Carty
Leveraged and inverse-leveraged ETPs can be good tactical tools, but can produce outsized losses as well.
There might soon be a day when at least half of the mutual-fund
community converts its traditional funds into ETFs.
by
Jeff Schlegel
Grail Advisors, a developer of actively-managed ETFs
aimed at the financial advisor market, has partnered
with DoubleLine Capital LP to launch an emerging markets fixed-income
ETF.
by
Jeff Schlegel
One-year-old company rolls out a mutual fund star rating system it says
takes a deeper look at risk metrics than does Morningstar Inc.'s
bellwether star rating system.
A modest price war among some ETFs focused on emerging
markets is making the arena more affordable for investors.
There's no easy fix to the way the weakening euro is amplifying U.S.
investors' losses in international stocks and mutual funds.
by Marla Brill
The middle of the year is a good time to re-evaluate ETF portfolios and do fine-tuning.
Financial advisors whose clients want ethics to play a role in their
investment portfolios are getting a new tool.
