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Emerging markets exchange-traded funds are on the mend in 2016. Only time will tell how long that trend will last, but what is left of the emerging markets bull camp after several years of dour performances will likely reiterate that developing world equities are still nowhere close to previous...

With the first quarter drawing to a close this week, it is fair to say that through the first three months of the year, low volatility exchange-traded funds have been favored targets among equity-based funds. One of the drawbacks to such ETFs is that these products underscore the notion that there...

The ETF of ETFs structure is increasingly popular and with interest rates still low, multi-asset exchange-traded funds could regain some luster with income investors. So the PowerShares DWA Tactical Multi-Asset Income Portfolio (NASDAQ: DWIN) could prove to be one of this year's more well timed...

The prosperity of low volatility exchange-traded funds has been well-documented this year and with good reason. Put simply, in a market environment that has been far from sanguine, ETFs such as the PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust II (NYSE:...

At the end of 2014, the 50 largest private equity firms had a combined $1.5 trillion in assets under management. Chances are, none of those assets were yours, but there is good news for regular investors looking to get on the private equity game. A fair amount of private equity companies are...

A rocky start to the year for equities coupled with speculation that the Federal Reserve will be slow to raise interest rates this year, if the central bank does so at all, have been boons for rate-sensitive asset classes and sectors. Utilities stocks and exchange-traded funds epitomize those...

Amid a turbulent start to the year for global equity markets, advisors and investors should be looking for the investment factors that, at the very least, are performing less bad. The low volatility and quality factors come to mind. Hallmarks of the quality factor, one of the most venerable...

As the name and the credit ratings imply, junk bonds are not the five-star hotels of the fixed income universe. It is the high yields that lure investors to junk bonds and exchange traded funds, such as the iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High...

There is an increasing number of ways to approach smart or strategic beta methodologies in the world of exchange-traded funds. Some critics would argue the universe encompassing strategic beta is becoming unwieldy and too complex for many advisors and investors to digest. What cannot be debated is...

On Tuesday, approximately 30 exchange-traded funds hit all-time highs. Many of those were ETFs that have come to market this year, but there were seasoned veterans among the group as well, with one of the notables being the PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) (NASDAQ: QQQ), the NASDAQ-100...

ETF investors have become enamored with low volatility funds as a method of investing in a basket of high quality stocks with a lower overall beta to the market. The process in constructing these ETFs is relatively simple – take a broad index such as the S&P 500 and eliminate the stocks...

The S&P Mid Cap 400 Index (INDEX: MID) hit a new all-time high last week to little fanfare, as attention has been placed on the NASDAQ reaching for the 5,000 level. Despite the lack of hoopla, the index has had a solid year, up 3.5 percent in 2015 and up a whopping 17 percent from the mid-...

The agricultural business sector of the market has been slow to keep pace with the pronounced growth in the major indices over the last year. The flagging prices of agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat and soybeans have capped the gains in fertilizer and other supply companies that are...

Invesco's (NYSE: IVZ) PowerShares unit, the fourth-largest U.S. ETF issuer, said Thursday that its suite of ETFs based on Dorsey Wright & Associates relative index methodology has topped a combined $2 billion in assets under management. PowerShares also said it is changing the names of the...