First Trust’s plans outlined in a recent filing to market an ETF that would track smart-phone-related companies bring back into focus a basic question: Is an investment vehicle this specific in its focus genius or folly?
First Trust’s plans outlined in a recent filing to market an ETF that would track smart-phone-related companies bring back into focus a basic question: Is an investment vehicle this specific in its focus genius or folly?
Claymore continues its strategic move to broaden its product line.
The growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has spilled into energy ETFs, but investors should see opportunity, as the
Pax World Management, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based investment adviser focused on developing socially and environmentally responsible exchange-traded funds, launched its first ETF today, and plans to roll out another two by the end of the month.
The U.S. government approved a big wind energy project off Massachusetts last week after nine years of deliberations—a sobering fact suggesting investors shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for the industry to take off, even though clean energy ETF prices popped up on the news.
With its purchase of Rydex SGI in February, a little-known asset manager by the name of Guggenheim Partners suddenly became the seventh-largest ETF provider in the U.S. Prior to its purchase of Claymore Securities just seven months earlier, Guggenheim had only been involved in one product for retail investors. The truly shocking part is the whole thing might have been an accident.
Can Claymore move outside of niche products and capture the core of the market?