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Vanguard Group has introduced a Total International Stock Index Fund. This fund shall track the MSCI All Country World ex-USA Investable Market Index. The fund covers developed markets like Canada and Europe as well as emerging markets like India, China and other Asian markets. Bulk of the fund’s exposure, more than 40%, is directed to [...]

A popular mutual fund manager, Old Mutual is hoping to diversify its products by launching a new line of ETFs that will initially trade with zero expense. All five funds are to be based on popular overseas FTSE indexes, and the five new exchange-traded funds are: GlobalShares FTSE Emerging Markets Fund (GSR: Quote, Profile, Advanced [...]

Close inspection into September’s ETF inflows suggests that investors are concerned about inflation. The top exchange-traded funds were anti-dollar and anti-US stocks. SPDR Gold Shares (GLD: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) raked in an astounding $2 billion, followed by iShares Barclay TIPS fund (TIP: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) at $847 million. Emerging market funds [...]

While stocks won the spotlight in the market’s recent upswing, exchange-traded funds are set to touch $1 trillion within the year. A recent report from Barclays Global identifies the strong growth in ETFs that stems from higher equity prices, as well as a surge in the number of investors using exchange-traded funds. At the end [...]

Currency ETFs are not the most popular exchange-traded funds due to their less than volatile temperament. However, recent volatility in the US dollar is motivating investors into buying non-American denominated ETF currency funds. The US dollar now treads on an 11-month low after breaking through many important and longstanding support and resistance lines, according to [...]

Exchange-traded funds all seem to be embarking upon an emerging trend. As soon as investors show interest in a particular sector, a variety of niche funds are launched within weeks to take a slice of the pie. The trend is most prevalent in international ETFs, as investors seek new ways to invest abroad and diversify [...]

Old Mutual has filed for five new exchange-traded funds, nearly all of which are focused on emerging and foreign markets and exclude the United States from their holdings. Analysts expect that the funds will be able to grab secure plenty of traction, especially as investors have recently favored investing overseas, rather than domestically. The five [...]

As investors anxiously await improving market conditions, exchange-traded fund portfolios are helping investors get back on track. For many investors, ETFs are helping to better diversify portfolios against what could be a very slow recovery period. To provide curious investors with a look into a professional’s portfolio, TheStreet analyzed an ETF portfolio created by strategist [...]

Now is the time for investors to broadly spread the risk. As many markets around the world are both benefiting and suffering from the current global economic state, diversification becomes extremely important. A leading ETF issuer, Barclays Global Investors (BGI), has just released two international ETFs as a way of providing access to the fixed-income [...]

Severe weakness within the Russian economy has taken a tremendous toll on the country-specific ETF in 2008. Of the world’s twenty largest equity markets, Russia ranked at the very bottom, according to William Mauldin and Denis Maternovsky of Bloomberg. Russia’s index, tracked by Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), has lost [...]