Real Estate

Vanguard, one of the largest ETF issuers, will soon have 19 more funds in their lineup. The new ETFs will track a variety of indexes; however, the most notable will be the S&P 500. Vanguard ETFs are made up of share classes of the company’s index funds. Among the 19 new ETFs are funds to [...]

Direxion, the ETF issuer popular for its line of leveraged funds, has announced an upcoming reverse share split on four of its triple leveraged ETFs. The ETFs scheduled for the reverse split on July 8, 2010 are: 1. Direxion Daily Energy Bear 3x Shares (ERY: Profile, Quote, Advanced Chart, News) 2. Direxion Daily Real Estate [...]

At the surface, real estate and consumer confidence numbers may appear to have little in common. However, as consumer confidence continues to rise, commercial REITs offer a unique opportunity to investors. Analysts believe improving consumer confidence numbers could help commercial real estate investment trusts, which have been some of the hardest hit during the “Great [...]

As pundits and analysts declare that China’s real estate driven economic expansion is part of a larger bubble, the fundamentals suggest a different picture. A look into China’s real estate shows that for most investors, there’s still money to be made. The Claymore/AlphaShares China Real Estate ETF (TAO: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), a popular [...]

It is no secret on Wall Street that leveraged and short funds eventually go to $0, but ProShares hopes a reverse split can bring nine of its funds back from the dead. ProShares will enact a reverse split after the closing bell on April 14, hoping to breathe some life into nine plummeting funds. The [...]

As real estate sails out of the doldrums, some options investors aren’t so optimistic about the future. Two significant trades indicate ETF options traders are bracing for a pullback. The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index (IYR: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), a popular ETF for tracking major components of the real estate market, [...]

ProShares has filed with the SEC to create five new leveraged or inverse funds, expanding the already largest lineup of leveraged products by any one issuer. The new funds tackle popular sectors such as China, bio-tech, basic materials and real estate. The five new funds are: 1. Short FTSE/Xinhua China (YXI) 2. Ultra Nasdaq Biotechnology [...]

ALPS has filed with the SEC to create a new fund of a increasingly popular investment: real estate. The fund will track an existing index, the Cohen & Steers Global Realty Majors Index. The criteria for the underlying index is different than most other “plain vanilla” indexes. The fund will invest in real estate stocks [...]

Emerging Global Shares could not have picked better timing with the release of its new China Infrastructure Fund (CHXX: News). Amidst stimulus efforts undertaken around the world, investors have been eying infrastructure names as sound investments in a shaky economic climate. The China Infrastructure Index ETF will invest in the 30 largest companies that center [...]

As the world economy weakens through nearly two years of recession, China’s stimulus driven economy is exploding in every direction. A growing export economy has exerted a tremendous impact on the boom, which has covered all sectors of the Chinese economy, including real estate. Chinese exports rose 17.7% year over year against 55.9% growth in [...]