Insurance

Keefe, Bruyette, and Woods, Inc (KBW) is a firm that concentrates on the financial sector and represents ETF indices in Banking, Regional Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, and Mortgage Finance. KBW has disclosed upcoming changes to its Financial Sector Dividend Yield Index (KDX – ETF symbol: KBWD). The press release reports that the index will delete [...]

Invesco PowerShares, the Lisle, Ill.-based fund sponsor known for its QQQ ETF (NasdaqGM:QQQQ), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch four new funds based on so-called FIRE indexes targeting the financial, insurance and real estate sectors.

Keefe, Bruyette, and Woods, Inc (KBW) is a firm that concentrates on the financial sector and represents ETF indices in Banking, Regional Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, and Mortgage Finance. KBW has disclosed additional upcoming changes to its Capital Markets (KSX; ETF symbol KCE: Profile, Quote, Advanced Chart, News) index. According to the press release, Stifel Financial [...]

ETF investors will soon find a little more Buffett in their portfolio; Warren Buffett that is. Warren Buffett’s investment giant Berkshire Hathaway is slated to replace Burlington Northern in the S&P500. Berkshire Hathaway will join the S&P500 to replace the firm it recently purchased, railway powerhouse Burlington Northern, MarketWatch reports. Exchange-traded funds tracking the index [...]

Emerging Global Advisors is set to launch a new exchange-traded fund which taps into two sectors already very popular with investors: emerging markets and financial stocks. The fund will rely on the newly created Dow Jones Emerging Markets Financial Titans Index as its underlying index. Emerging Global Advisors will be releasing the fund under the [...]

Not every advisor has jumped on the exchange-traded fund bandwagon, but there are many that have. A new study finds that a certain advisor is more likely than others to enrich client portfolios with exchange-traded funds. A study conducted by Financial Research Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts found that financial advisors and planners in trading houses [...]

Manulife Financial Corp., a mutual fund provider and insurance company based out of Canada, has filed with the SEC to create three American ETFs. The company will utilize its three existing U.S. arms, John Hancock Advisers LLC, John Hancock Investment Management Services, and MFC Global Investment Management, as managers for the newly created funds. Following [...]

Despite the flurry of speculative activity, not all health care stocks are created equal. A government program may add trillions to corporate coffers to extend health care to all Americans, and while there is certainly money to be made, profit only exists in the right stocks. Insurers and other health care servicing companies are likely [...]

As the government increases its involvement in America’s private industries, investors are expecting that a new national insurance program could help bolster health care stocks and ETFs. Investors are evaluating the government’s latest actions, including giving the Federal Reserve new oversight powers, as well as the possibility of a government-run health care program. Smart Money [...]

Leveraged exchange-traded funds have found buyers amongst active day traders, but there is one benefit that may have escaped investors for months. Hedging with leveraged exchange-traded funds poses an excellent opportunity to profit while protecting assets against volatility. Buying insurance against your market holdings is impossible; there is not one insurance agency that protects traders [...]