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Many of this year's new exchange-traded funds have been slow out of the gates, with only two truly impressing from an asset-gathering prospective. However, at a time when investors are pouring billions in fresh capital into fixed income funds, some rookie bond ETFs are off to solid starts....

Citi maintains its Neutral rating and $29 price target on Bats Global Markets Inc (BATS: BATS), despite saying the exchange operator's growth initiatives seem to be tracking to plan. "We still see the opportunity for outsized growth against peers, particularly in Hotspot (FX) platform, but we would...

Thanks in large part to the evolution of currency hedged exchange-traded funds as core portfolio holdings, more investors have become aware of the scourge of currency risk. With either currency-hedged or -unhedged ETFs, investors, whether they realize it or not, are making currency bets. A stake in...

U.S. investors usually do not have a problem embracing domestic small caps. The size of some small-cap exchange-traded funds confirms as much, but investors are often lightly allocated to ex-U.S. small caps on the notion that if smaller U.S. stocks are volatile, the international equivalents must...

Approximately 90 new exchange-traded funds have come to market this year, but as is usually the case with rookie ETFs, most are not yet attracting much attention or assets from investors. Two Top-Performing New ETFs One of the exceptions, well, one of two exceptions is the WisdomTree Dynamic...

The landscape of exchange-traded funds dedicated to high-yielding preferred stocks is not as large as other corners of the ETF arena, so there is room for some innovation here. Innovation arrived Tuesday with the debut of the Elkhorn S&P High Quality Preferred ETF (BATS: EPRF), the first...

Dividend growth, as it should be, is a point of emphasis for seasoned income investors. Plenty of issuers of exchange-traded funds have met that demand with a batch of U.S.-focused dividend growth ETFs. Some issuers are also taking the dividend growth approach to international ETFs. BlackRock Inc...

No, it is not a coincidence. The U.S. Dollar Index is down 4.6 percent year-to-date and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is slightly higher. With the greenback's slide now spanning multiple months, some currency market participants are expecting the dollar to rebound. If that scenario comes to...

With the euro stronger against the dollar and the European Central Bank (ECB) dispatching a series of disappointing monetary easing efforts to global investors this year, it is not surprising that eurozone stocks and the corresponding U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds are scuffling. What's Going On...

In another sign of the rapid growth of smart or strategic beta exchange-traded funds BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit, the world's largest ETF issuer, is expanding its already substantial lineup of smart beta ETFs with nine factor-based sector funds. The New Names iShares introduced...

Barclays has initiated coverage on BATS Global Markets, Inc. (BATS: BATS) with an Equal Weight rating and $25 price target, saying that although BATS is an "efficient exchange competitor" with potential avenues of revenue growth, the company's valuation is preventing the firm from being "more...

Morgan Stanley’s Betsy L. Graseck believes BATS Global Markets, Inc. (BATS: BATS) was “a great hedge for choppy markets,” since “exchanges outperform when volatility is high or rising, even if markets are falling.” Graseck maintains an Equal-Weight rating on the...

Nearly as exchange-traded products that attempt to track the VIX, or other volatility gauges, have been around, these products have been heavily criticized and scrutinized. The iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN (IPATH SP 500 VIX SHORT TERM FUT ETN (NYSE: VXX)), a favorite of hedge funds...

U.S. interest rates have been on a steady downward trajectory since the 1980s. While that may imply fixed income investing has been easier or less risky than equities, the bond market environment has consistently changed. Exchange-traded funds have made rolling with those changes a little bit...

Long/short is a strategy many investors associate with being limited to hedge funds and other professional investors, but anyone can access that strategy with some exchange-traded funds, including the WisdomTree Dynamic Long/Short U.S. Equity Fund (BATS: DYLS). The WisdomTree Dynamic Long/Short U.S...