Luciano Siracusano

Underscoring the ongoing boom for smart or strategic beta exchange-traded funds, these ETFs had $497 billion in combined assets under management on a global basis at the end of November, according to ETFGI data. Nearly $445 billion of that total was found in the United States. “Year to date...

Nearly 250 new exchange-traded products debuted last year, highlighting issuers' affinity for testing the waters with new concepts in an effort to gain investors' assets. As is the case with each year's crop of new ETFs, few of 2016's rookie ETFs were immediately successful. Success...

Small-cap stocks and exchange-traded funds have been receiving plenty of notoriety in recent weeks. With many of the ETFs tracking smaller companies recently hitting record highs, investors are right to start to evaluating which ones can keep the upside coming in 2017. The WisdomTree SmallCap...

With market volatility here on the back of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election victory, the world of exchange-traded funds is here to oblige investor concerns. That includes long/short funds such as the WisdomTree Dynamic Long/Short U.S. Equity Fund (NYSE: DYLS). The WisdomTree Dynamic Long/...

Among developed market currencies, the euro is disappointing investors. Disappointing because many investors were betting various monetary stimulus efforts by the European Central Bank (ECB) would serve to weaken the common currency, but nearly eight months into 2016, the Guggenheim CurrencyShares...

With many dividend exchange-traded funds easily outpacing broader benchmarks, such as the S&P 500 this year, a logical deduction would be that some of these ETFs are home to richly valued stocks. That is true of some dividend ETFs, particularly those with heavy weights to the consumer staples...

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...

Late last year, dividend stocks and the corresponding exchange-traded funds were being left for dead as investors anticipated the Federal Reserve would follow up its December interest rate hike with at least four more rate hikes in 2016. Nearly four months into 2016, there has not been a single...

Smart or strategic beta exchange-traded funds have enjoyed another banner of asset-gathering proficiency. By some estimates, roughly $2 of every $3 that flowed into U.S.-listed ETFs this year have gone into a strategic beta fund, and those inflows are being led by currency hedged funds. But, as is...

Few, if any, economies and equity markets outside of the United States command attention on par with China. So it is noteworthy that U.S.-listed China exchange-traded funds have recently been rebounding. For example, the iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (ETF) (NYSE: FXI), the largest China ETF...