Real Estate

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 [...]

Rather than create leveraged ETFs, banks are finding it easier to create structured products that leverage investments on the investor’s end, instead of leveraging on the ETF’s end. The new products, which stand to benefit from poor publicity surrounding leveraged ETFs, are more like exchange-traded notes than ETFs. JP Morgan has introduced a new structured [...]

After one year of jack-hammered prices, real estate ETFs are finally starting to rebuild. With existing home sales growing 7.2% from June to July, along with another 9.6% growth for new homes, real estate ETFs are slowly paving the road to recovery. Fueled by the positive home sales news, investors rallied around real estate ETFs [...]

During the latest bubble, no asset was more dramatically impacted than real estate. In a near vertical plunge, REIT ETFs suffered as the credit crunch sent housing prices lower. However, in a rare twist of fate, it could be the problem that will actually become the solution. The credit crunch not only depressed real estate [...]

Only days after two lawsuits were filed against ProShares’ UltraShort Real Estate Fund (SRS: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News), a third legal entity will begin investigating the leveraged ETF sector as a whole. Stanley, Mandel & Iola, L.L.P. and Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP have announced their intent to find wrongdoing committed by [...]

Another lawsuit has been filed against ProShares’ UltraShort Real Estate Fund (SRS: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) by the law office of Howard G. Smith. The latest filing is more dramatic in scope, having already been filed as a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit takes a different approach than the one filed previously by Labaton [...]

MacroShare’s real estate funds, Major Metro Housing Up (UMM) and Major Metro Housing Down (DMM), were the first of its kind, using Treasuries as a safekeeping vehicle while adding and removing assets from each ETF to reflect changes in the market. Though the system seems farfetched, it could be the next frontier in leveraged funds. [...]

In the midst of the heated leveraged ETF debate, a lawsuit was filed in New York on Thursday against ProShares, alleging that the issuer did not accurately describe the inherent risks in its ProShares UltraShort Real Estate Fund (SRS: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News). The suit promises to end in a landmark decision, which will [...]

With global markets fighting to regain their footholds, one ETF continues to move higher, despite holding investments in one of the worst performing industries. Claymore AlphaShares China Real Estate (TAO: Quote, Profile, Advanced Chart, News) is a rare ETF in a sea of red. The fund may be enjoying a boost for its emerging markets [...]

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. [...]