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Assets in U.S. listed ETFs have grown at record levels when looking at 2011 through the first half of the year. By the end of June, assets under management in American exchange-traded funds reached $1.098 trillion, which is a 39% increase from the $788 billion level just one year ago. According to the National Stock [...]

Assets in U.S. listed ETFs have grown tremendously when looking at 2011 through the first five months. By the end of May, assets under management in American exchange-traded funds reached $1.11 trillion, which is a 40% climb from the $798 billion level just one year ago. According to the National Stock Exchange press release, year-to-date [...]

A new oil tracking ETF is about to slide onto the scene. The fund, known as IQ Global Oil Small Cap ETF (ticker: IOIL), will track smaller oil companies in more than ten countries around the world. The U.S. will carry the biggest weight with nearly half of the companies while Canada and Thailand round [...]

Fund issuer State Street Global Advisors has launched two ETFs – S&P Emerging Markets Dividend Fund (EDIV) and Barclays Capital Emerging Markets Local Bond Fund (EBND). The new ETFs are designed the fill the gap created by absence of funds that help investors control exposure to debt and dividend investments in a precise manner. The [...]

Commodity based ETF specialist Teucrium Trading LLC has announced The Teucrium Natural Gas Fund (NAGS) which will invest funds in multiple natural gas funds. The ETF will invest in multiple NYMEX futures contract to dissipate the negative impact of potential ‘contango’ in the market. The fund will hold three different contracts simultaneously with different weightage [...]

The total number of ETFs tradable in Fidelity Investment’s ETF centric trading rose from 25 to 30 with addition of 5 new ETFs. The free program enables investors to trade in funds covering: Real Estate–Dow Jones US Real Estate Index Fund (IYR), Stocks offering regular dividends–Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund (DVY),  and Dow Jones [...]

The National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX®) just released its January 2011 ETF/ETN data reports.  Highlights from the January 2011 reports include:       Assets in U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) totaled a new record of approximately $1.02 trillion at January 2011 month-end, an increase of approximately 37% over January 2010 month-end when assets totaled $744.7 [...]

Claymore has rolled out another exchange-traded fund to expand its exclusive relationship with Wilshire Associates Indexes. The latest fund is size-specific, capturing nearly 1,600 micro-cap companies. The new ETF from Claymore, known as Wilshire Micro-Cap ETF (WMCR), tracks the Wilshire US Micro-Cap Index, according to the press release. WMCR joins three other Claymore-Wilshire related ETFs, [...]

Assets continued to flow into U.S. exchange-traded funds during the month of July despite significant outflows from gold’s largest ETF. July is the sixth straight month that assets have flowed into ETFs and the emerging market class was the primary reason for the current month’s growth. Emerging market ETFs attracted the most assets with $4.6 [...]

WisdomTree has just launched a new actively managed ETF that provides access to local emerging market debt. The exposure to the emerging market debt will be in that market’s local currency. The fund, known as WisdomTree Emerging Markets Local Debt Fund (ELD), has begun trading on the NYSE Arca and has $125 million in assets, [...]