ETF Trends

Mergers and acquisitions have been one of the key drivers behind the healthcare sector's leadership during the current bull market. That catalyst has been dealt a blow at the hands of the U.S. government's efforts to crack down on inversion deals, but that does not mean healthcare M&A...

Investors are often regaled with tales of the efficacy of investing for the long term. The idea has its detractors and supporters. At the sector level, healthcare has proven to be a long-term winner, and the fundamental outlook, one that in large parts centers around aging populations in developed...

Plenty of fixed income exchange-traded funds are benefiting from the Federal Reserve's reluctance to raise interest rates this year. That group includes, but is not limited to U.S. government bond funds, emerging markets debt ETFs and high-yield corporate bond offerings. Predictably, the...

To say the United States Oil Fund LP (ETF) (NYSE: USO), which tracks West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures, is a flawed product is accurate and fair. Over the past three years, USO is down 77.1 percent, but the exchange-traded product remains a favorite, on both sides of the oil trade, of...

Among the asset classes seen as vulnerable to rising rates are high-yielding mortgage real estate investment trusts, or mREITs, including those held by exchange-traded funds such as the iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF (iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortg.REITIn Fd(ETF) (NYSE: REM)) and the Market...

In anticipation of higher U.S. interest rates, some of the largest issuers of exchange-traded funds have brought scores of interest rate hedged ETFs to market. The movement to bring these funds to market got going in earnest in 2014, and the field is now populated to the point the options number at...