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WisdomTree will take nine of its most popular US listed funds across the border to list on Mexican stock exchanges. The move will allow the fund to tap into a growing investment class in Mexico and bring variety to a limited marketplace. WisdomTree’s move comes six years after iShares first moved its funds south of [...]

An active central bank in the United States is keeping interest rates so low that traders are now re-entering carry trade positions to profit from the difference in bid and ask interest rates at foreign banks. As rates continue to fall in the United States, carry trade investments in other foreign currencies will only grow [...]

The very first options on actively-managed ETFs were released today, as WisdomTree and the NASDAQ OMX Group have reached an agreement to allow WisdomTree’s actively managed currency funds to start listing options on the exchange. WisdomTree’s funds will be the first actively managed funds to give investors access to options, opening the door for option [...]

The countries of South Africa, Brazil, and Mexico have each experienced an increase in its currency ETF over the month of July. Other foreign currencies have shown year-to-date strength against the U.S. dollar. In an article from Investor’s Business Daily, Jesse Emspak writes that South Africa’s currency ETF had the strongest performance with an increase [...]

The release date for five new International Currency Income ETFs is set for May 13, 2008 on the NYSE Arca. Wisdom Tree has teamed up with Dreyfus Corporation to develop the international currency funds. According to Wisdom Tree’s President and COO, Bruce Lavine, “For the first time, we are bringing the ETF structure to an [...]