Small Cap ETF Channel

Even in declining markets, gold prices finally started to slip as GLD ETF assets cracked $10 billion.

Largest New ETFs
Covers funds launched September 1, 2006 - February 16, 2007

Like Vanguard before it, which rebranded its Vipers as ETF Share Classes last year, State Street Global Advisors dropped the streetTRACKS nomenclature in favor of the simpler and more recognizable SPDRs insignia.

2006: Two worlds, in a year of many crosscurrents. Updating the portfolio for the uncertainty of 2007.

SPDRs Spread Their Web

SSgA has filed for the right to launch 16 new international ETFs, in one of the most important ETF filings in recent history. The new funds will give SSgA a complete lineup of global and regional ETFs, and will position the company to capitalize on the growing interest in international investing. The filings will put significant pressure on BGI, which has had, until this year, a near monopoly on international ETFs.

The funds are shown in the shaded box below.