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Morningstar now offers four data points to assess the costs and risks associated with ETFs. Three data points, Tracking Error, Estimated holding cost and Market impact cost help investors compare costs with performance and liquidity in the secondary market. The fourth point, Portfolio Concentration, measures concentration of portfolio in single or small number of variables [...]

Rydex SGI has 34 ETFs and is ranked 9th in the market with combined assets worth $7.7 billion. It is seeking to establish itself as the top service provider in the equal weight ETF niche. ETFs invest funds in the companies forming the part of the index it tracks either on a basis of capitalization [...]

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 [...]

The world’s largest ETF provider, Black Rock’s iShares, has filed to open two new quant strategy funds.  With almost $600 billion under management, this move represents a departure from their more straightforward index-based products.The goal is to reduce losses from the stock markets’ worst periods by using mathematical techniques developed by index provider MSCI Inc.  [...]

Option trading volume on the Chicago Board of Exchange was down in August as a whole. ETF trading showed some areas of growth but slowed from the previous month. ETF market share was down slightly too. According to the press release, year-to-date ETF option volume through August grew by 6% over the previous year at [...]

Next ETFs has plans for a new series of ETFs. The issuer is expected to start with a unique US ETF which would track the premier Nikkei 225 Japanese index. The Nikkei 225 Index is a leading Japanese benchmark made up of 225 liquid stocks within the Tokyo Stock Exchange. According to the press release, [...]

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, [...]

Investors will now have another ETF available to capture India’s small cap equity market with the launch of a new ETF by Van Eck. Last month, EG Shares introduced the first small cap ETF for India. The new ETF from Van Eck, known as Market Vectors India Small-Cap Index ETF (SCIF), will track the Market [...]

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 [...]

For the first time, investors will have direct access to India’s infrastructure industry with the launch of a new ETF by Emerging Global Shares. The new ETF will be the eighth fund from EG Shares, which specializes in various sectors within emerging markets. For example, EG Shares has emerging market ETFs for both the financial [...]