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Exchange-traded funds have exploded in popularity in recent decades, but the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made some major changes to regulations this week that could have a significant impact on ETF traders. What Happened On Thursday, the SEC announced a new, modernized set of...

One of the better performing corners of the consumer discretionary sector this year are homebuilders stocks. For example, the iShares Dow Jones US Home Const. (ETF) (NYSE: ITB) is up 15.3 percent, more than double the year-to-date returns offered by the Consumer Discretionary SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLY...

Investors are embracing emerging markets exchange-traded funds again in significant fashion, and that is good news for BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit. The world's largest ETF issuer, iShares is also home to the ETF industry's largest stable of emerging markets ETFs. A Whole Herd...

ETF.com's "Inside ETFs" conference took place in Florida last week and, perhaps not surprisingly, smart beta exchange-traded funds were popular topics of discussion. That stands to reason as various surveys and studies out last indicated professional investors are likely to continue boosting...

This is how bad things have been in 2015 for Latin American stocks and the relevant exchange-traded funds trading in the United States: Of the single-country ETFs tracking Latin American economies, the Global X MSCI Argentina ETF (Global X Funds (NYSE: ARGT)) has been the best performer this year....

According to data from ETF.com, there are now 1,721 exchange-traded products currently available on U.S.-listed exchanges and that number is expanding at a breakneck pace.  Just this year, a combined 100 new ETFs and ETNs have debuted amid a bifurcated global marketplace that has seen some...

Exchange-traded funds have a myriad of advantages over mutual funds that include their inherent transparency, liquidity, low-cost and tax-efficiency. Because of this embedded liquidity and transparency, we have the ability to track asset flows on the entire universe of ETFs in order to discern...

Bank loan ETFs gained a great deal of notoriety and assets last year as investors flocked to these non-traditional debt securities in order to insulate their portfolio from rising interest rates.  Floating rate notes and senior loans are unique in that their yield is tied to a benchmark such as...