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IndexIQ, a NY based firm offering asset management service is offering a line of single country ETFs with small capital outlay. The ETFs shall focus on high growth Asian countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines. The firm aims to help US investors gain from the China success story by investing money [...]

Planning for the future, Direxion has filed with the SEC to create 36 new funds. 34 of these will be bullish and bearish triple leveraged funds, all pending during the heat of a SEC review. Following the popularity of geographically centered ETFs, many of the new funds will be leveraged around a portfolio of stocks [...]

EGA Emerging Global Shares has filed for a new line of seven exchange-traded funds that would center on BRIC nations and their economies. Six of the funds target infrastructure and mid cap stocks, while the remainder is set to track a broader index of Asian companies. The new funds filed with the SEC are: 1. [...]

Capitalizing upon the current popularity of emerging ETFs, Emerging Global Advisors has launched its second exchange-traded fund of 2009. The new fund, named Emerging Global Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Titans Composite Index Fund (EEG: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), seeks to track the Dow Jones Titan Index, but with several amendments to the original [...]

Barclays Bank has provided a diversified opportunity to invest in various currencies of the Asian region. According to the Mondo Visione article, Barclays has listed a new ETN on the NYSE Arca that gives access to eight different currencies within emerging markets of Asia. The new ETN, known as the Barclays GEMS Asia 8 ETN [...]

Barclays Global Investors has announced the launch of its newest iShares ETF to capture a broad and diversified piece of various Asian markets. Michael Latham, CEO of U.S. iShares at Barclays is quoted to say, “Since iShares launched the first pure mainland China ETF for U.S. investors in 2005, investors have continued to ask for [...]

In an attempt to draw in Islamic investors, Japan’s Daiwa Asset Management has developed an ETF to capture the essence of Islamic principles, which will be the first of its kind to trade on the Singapore Exchange. The Reuters article identifies the new ETF, known as Daiwa FTSE Shariah Japan 100 ETF, to be a [...]

The Philippine Stock Exchange is taking the necessary steps with the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission to bring ETFs into their market for the first time. According to the Index Universe article, the Philippines is the only emerging market in Asia without a single ETF trading on its exchange. The Philippine Stock Exchange believes that [...]