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Friday, 09 July 2010 12:03 |
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Today marks another development in the emerging market ETF boom; Global X, the New York-based firm that burst on to the ETF scene with sector-specific China ETFs, is now tackling the Brazilian market. Two weeks after debuting the Brazil Mid Cap ETF (BRAZ), Global X announced today the launch of the Brazil Consumer ETF (BRAQ). This ETF joins the Brazil Infrastructure Index Fund (BRXX) as the only funds offering targeted exposure to sectors of the Brazilian economy, providing additional options for investing in one of the largest and most unique emerging economies [see all ETFs in the Latin America Equities ETFdb Category]. BRAQ tracks the Solactive Brazil Consumer Index, a benchmark designed to reflect the performance of Brazil’s consumer sector. The ETF will track at least 20 companies and at most 40 companies in Brazil. BRAQ has the highest weights in the food and beverage [...]
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Friday, 09 July 2010 12:03 |
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The first half of 2010 is in the books, and it is no surprise that the ETF industry has continued to grow at an impressive rate. According to the latest data from the National Stock Exchange, the universe of exchange-traded products saw almost $40 billion of cash inflows during the first six months of the year. From purely a volume perspective, the expansion of the ETF industry has been impressive as well; by our count, the first half saw more than 100 new product launches covering a wide variety of asset classes and investment strategies. Of course some of these new products have been more successful than others; most ETFs take a significant amount of time to build up material asset levels and trading volumes. But others come flying out of the gates, tapping into a corner of the investable universe that investors are eager to tap but that wasn’t [...]
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Friday, 09 July 2010 12:03 |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has green-lighted the idea to implement their circuit breakers on more than 344 different exchange traded funds (ETFs) in an effort to ensure that there are no more “broken trades.” The so-called circuit breaker rules that were introduced...
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Friday, 09 July 2010 12:03 |
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WisdomTree, the New York-based fund company known for its fundamentally weighted indexes focusing on dividend and income exchange traded funds (ETFs), is taking their franchise another step further. The ETF provider files with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for two new actively...
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Sunday, 04 July 2010 05:22 |
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One section of the ETF world that has seen rapid expansion over the past year has been commodity producing equity ETFs. As investors have embraced ETFs as a means of establishing exposure to natural resource prices, many are beginning to realize that a host of commodities are thinly-traded, and therefore not suitable for “pure play” futures-based or physically-backed ETFs. Due to this, investors have seen the introduction of several funds offering exposure to commodities through stocks of companies engaged in their production and extraction, including ETFs that target copper miners, platinum mining companies, and even timber producers. One interesting new idea is being developed from Van Eck is to target companies that are engaged in the mining and production of so called ‘minor metals’ such as titanium and cobalt. While these metals are very thinly traded, they remain absolutely vital to a host of current and emerging technologies. In a filing [...]
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