ETF Trends

Some fixed income investors are fretting about the idea of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve, perhaps as soon as later this month. However, there are some exchange-traded funds that offer investors exposure to corners of the bond world that can be durable in the face of rising rates. Additionally...

Some exchange-traded funds provide investors with an alternative to money markets and other low-yielding cash instruments. The newest addition to that field is the PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II (NYSE: CLTL), which debuted Thursday. This PowerShares treasury collateral portfolio follows...

Natural gas prices are firmer on Tuesday, with the forward one-month February futures currently up 19.9 cents at $3.302 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Natural Gas Stocks Head Northward Along with the increase in natural gas prices, natural gas stocks are...

With President-elect Donald Trump looking to spend $1 trillion on shoring up U.S. bridges, railways, roads and more, infrastructure stocks and the related exchange-traded funds are expected to be beneficiaries of Trump being the 45th U.S. president. Legg Mason Inc (NYSE: LM), which has been growing...

A spate of new high-dividend exchange-traded funds have been coming to market in recent weeks. The latest member of that group is the WBI Power Factor High Dividend ETF (NYSE: WBIY), courtesy of WBI Shares, one of the largest issuers of actively managed ETFs. To be clear, the WBI Power Factor High...

In the aftermath of the shocking U.S. presidential election results earlier this month, emerging markets equities and exchange-traded funds have slumped. That includes China ETFs, and President-elect Donald Trump's protectionist campaign trail rhetoric could be a reason why Chinese stocks are...

Count Oppenheimer as the latest exchange-traded funds to tap the burgeoning environmental, social and governance (ESG) trend. Last week, the firm debuted the Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust Oppenheimer ESG Revenue ETF (NYSE: ESGL) and the Oppenheimer Revenue Weighted ETF Trust Oppenheimer...

Exchange-traded products have made commodities investing available to the masses, and that is great. What is not so great? The pesky K-1 tax forms that accompany those investments come tax season. A new exchange-traded fund from ProShares looks to ameliorate that problem, at least for those...

First Trust, the seventh-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, is already one of the largest purveyors of smart beta ETFs, including sector funds, added to its lineup of smart beta offerings last week with the addition of seven industry funds. The new ETFs from Illinois-based First Trust...

As seasoned investors and traders know, there are some sectors that benefit from higher interest rates and others that do not. Now that the Federal Reserve has put off raising interest rates until at least December, let's look at how a pair of leveraged ETFs have behaved in rate-...

Eddy Elfenbein, editor of the popular “Crossing Wall Street” blog, has a new actively managed exchange-traded fund, and it does something unique. The AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF (NYSE: CWS), which is managed by Elfenbein, is a departure from the usual actively managed fund —...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)'s JPMorgan Asset Management unit continued expanding its lineup of exchange-traded funds Wednesday with the debut of the JPMorgan Diversified Alternatives ETF (NYSE: JPHF). “JPHF aims to democratize hedge fund investing by providing investors with...

There must be something to the knowledge effect. Just look at the Gavekal Knowledge Leaders Developed World ETF (Exchange Listed Funds Trust GaveKal Knowledge Leaders (NYSE: KLDW)). Now nearly 13 months old, KLDW topped the MSCI World Index by 5.5 percent through July 31, according to issuer data...

A day after index provider Msci Inc (NYSE: MSCI) opted against including stocks trading on mainland China, also known as A-shares, in its major emerging markets benchmarks, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit launched a new exchange-traded fund tracking A-shares. Picking Up The Slack The...

High-yielding business development companies (BDCs) are one of the asset classes benefiting from the Federal Reserve's lower for longer interest rate policy this year. That much is confirmed by a 9.5 percent rise over the past 90 days for the VanEck Vectors BDC Income ETF (NYSE: BIZD). BDC ETFs...