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'Making Progress': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Monday, December 21, 2020 - 8:12am | 1049The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Despite a volatile week, U.S. index futures managed to establish new all-time highs. Remember This: “In the longer term, the good news is that vaccines are now rolling out increasingly quickly,” said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at...
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E-Trade Adds To Commission-Free ETF Suite
Friday, August 11, 2017 - 8:43am | 413Discount brokerage giant E*Trade Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is again expanding its commission-free exchange-traded funds platform. New ETFs to the E-Trade commission-free ETF platform include offerings from JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Legg Mason Inc (NYSE: LM), Michigan-based...
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Schwab Expands Commission-Free Platform
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 9:24am | 409Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE: SCHW), one of the largest discount brokerage firms, said Monday it is expanding its Schwab ETF OneSource platform. Schwab ETF OneSource is already the largest commission-free exchange-traded funds offering in the brokerage space. Fifteen ETFs from nine different issuers...
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Guggenheim Bolsters BulletShares With 2 New ETFs
Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 10:34am | 423Guggenheim, the ninth-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, added to its popular lineup of BulletShares target-date ETFs Wednesday with the debuts of two new products. Those new ETFs are the Guggenheim BulletShares 2026 Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE: BSCQ) and the Guggenheim BulletShares 2024...
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New Guggenheim ETF Targets Optimized Large-Cap Diversity
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 8:57am | 507Guggenheim Investments, the eighth-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds and one of the largest issuers of smart or strategic beta ETFs, is adding to its lineup of alternatively-weighted offerings Tuesday with the debut of the Guggenheim Large Cap Optimized Diversification ETF (NYSE: OPD)....
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Smart Beta REIT ETF: The New S&P Equal-Weight Real Estate Index
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 9:52am | 860It's no secret that accredited investors, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have more access to commercial real estate investments than the average investor. Investor interest in this asset class has grown to the point that equity REITs and select real estate companies have essentially "...
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Guggenheim Launches New Income-Focused Infrastructure ETF
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 4:13pm | 439Investors searching for income are increasingly looking for ways to diversify their investments outside the traditional methods of bonds and dividend paying stocks. With that goal in mind, Guggenheim Investments recently launched the Guggenheim S&P High Income Infrastructure ETF (NYSE...
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Guggenheim to Shutter 9 ETFs
Friday, February 15, 2013 - 7:06pm | 369Guggenheim Investments, the eighth-largest U.S. ETF sponsor, said it will close nine low-asset exchange traded funds. The announcement was made after the close of U.S. markets Friday. The average size of the nine closing ETFs is $16 million, for a total of $144 million, equaling about one percent...
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Advisors to Increase ETF Usage, Guggenheim Says
Friday, October 26, 2012 - 3:33pm | 440Financial advisors plan to increase their use of ETFs in retail client portfolios next year, according to a survey by Guggenheim Investments, the investment management division of Guggenheim Partners. The survey, taken earlier this month at the Morningstar ETF Invest conference in Chicago, shows 78...
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iShares Adds Some Frontier to Frontier Markets ETF
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 12:44pm | 600Let's dispense with a couple of disclaimers to start. In December 2011 we reported that BlackRock's (NYSE: BLK) iShares, the world's largest ETF sponsor, had filed plans for the iShares MSCI Frontier Emerging Markets Select Index Fund. Second, tip of the cap to Index Universe for noting the still-...
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Guggenheim to Rebrand Rydex ETFs Tomorrow (RSP, RYT, RYE)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 3:14pm | 173Guggenheim Investments, the eighth largest U.S. exchange traded product provider with more than $11 billion in exchange traded assets, will rebrand the Rydex ETF family on Thursday March 1, 2012 under the Guggenheim name. Guggenheim acquired Rydex last in an effort to bolster its ETF lineup. That...