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Most emerging-market ETFs have flourished despite the recession. However, the largest emerging market fund, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) sputtered to close down 4% at the start of the week as investors forecast their own weak expectations through the option big boards. Normally light Monday trading was met with [...]

Vanguard, a leader in index mutual funds, has filed to create seven new funds, six of which will be invested in bonds. The new funds, which will be in competition with iShares and PIMCO, will fight primarily for its share of the Treasury bond ETF sector. The seven new funds are as follows: 1. Vanguard [...]

Throughout the 800 ETFs floating on the exchanges, many overlap either in sectors, timeframes, or in the securities tracked. However, ETF Securities, an ETF issuer new to the US markets, is proving that there may be room for more than one ETF in many investment areas. ETF Securities launched its first US exchange-traded fund ETFS [...]

No investment company in the world has done more to broaden the availability of ETFs to investors than iShares. In a new deal with SunGard, the firm hopes to place ETF options in more 401k and 403b programs. The program will be spearheaded by iShares, but promoted by SunGard, which will offer the products to [...]

In hopes of generating a silver screen buzz surrounding ETFs, iShares has contracted Ridley Scott Associates to produce a new movie on exchange-traded funds. The informational video, which will help convey exchange-traded funds as a formidable strategy for ordinary investors, joins a library of educational products now offered by iShares. The new film will feature [...]

Real estate investment trusts and exchange-traded funds have been some of the biggest winners in the 2009 stock recovery, although Deutsche Bank advises the worst may not be over. On the local level, real estate prices appear to be stabilizing, pushing investors back into ETFs and REITs that manage tremendous real estate portfolios, Forbes reports. [...]

ETF Securities has wasted no time in bringing its new Silver ETF to market. Despite stiff competition from iShares, ETF Securities is preparing to launch its new ETF on July 24. The exchange-traded fund, which will be named ETF Securities Silver Trust (SIVR: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), will trade on the NYSE Arca. The [...]

While PIMCO was late to the ETF game, they may have arrived just in time to secure a portion of the actively-managed marketplace. The firm currently plans to launch as many as five actively-managed funds, which would put the company in a leadership position in the niche. With its new line of exchange-traded funds, PIMCO [...]

With the appeal of instantaneous market exposure, along with the benefit of diversification, emerging market ETFs are enjoying a booming popularity among American investors. In iShares’ emerging market funds alone, volume has ballooned 127% in the first six months of 2009 over the same period in 2008. The growth of emerging market ETFs based in [...]

Emerging market stocks, with the help of exchange-traded funds, have rallied to their most expensive levels since October 2007. Emerging market stocks now trade at a premium over developed nation issues, a phenomenon that hasn’t occurred since the bubble formed right before emerging markets sank 54% in one year from 2007-2008. Emerging markets are now [...]