ETF Branding: What’s In The Name Might Not Be…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Courtesy of Karen Damato, WSJ Reporter Most ETF names appear to leave little to the imagination. They seem to describe what the fund is all about. But beware: Sometimes you can’t judge an ETF by its cover. A “Middle East & Africa” fund with only 5% of assets in the Middle East? A “BRIC” fund—you […] Read More

3 December, 2012

Knight Capital and ETFs.. Setting the Stories Straight.
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
excerpt from Olly Ludwig’s Nov 30 column You might think that having Knight Capital in play could be a threat to ETF trading. Luckily it’s not. Still, it struck me that thinking through the possibilities surrounding an acquisition of Knight by Getco or Virtu is a worthwhile exercise. After all, Knight is the biggest ETF […] Read More

30 November, 2012

iShares’ Eye On Canada..Market to Double in Size
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Courtesy of Eric Lim/Bloomberg LP IShares expects Canada’s exchange- traded fund market will double to about C$100 billion ($100.8 billion) in three to five years and the company plans to offer products and partnerships with firms such as Sun Life Financial Inc. (SLF) to maintain its No. 1 rank. IShares Canada, a unit of BlackRock […] Read More

27 November, 2012

Attn: Pension Fund Mgrs: ETF Trading Choices Can Affect…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
  By Ari Weinberg | November 26, 2012     Pension fund managers considering expanding their use of exchange-traded funds must always bear in mind that trading ETFs is entirely different from trading stocks. Entering a transaction without a clear understanding of the market dynamics for the ETF and the underlying stocks can be costly without the […] Read More

26 November, 2012

Market Neutral ETF Debuts
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
    Courtesy of Ronald Delegge, ETFGuide.com IndexIQ introduced the the IQ HedgeMarket Neutral Tracker ETF (QMN) in October. QMN is designed to offer investors liquid, transparent market neutral hedge fund exposure. QMN will seek to track, before fees and expenses, the performance characteristics of the IQ Hedge Market Neutral Index (IQHGMN), part of IndexIQ’s proprietary […] Read More

23 November, 2012

Retail ETFs: Black Friday Trading Strategies
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Courtesy of Daniela Pylypczak With the 2012 holiday season just around the corner, the U.S. retail sector is already gearing  up for what could be another make-or-break year for many companies. Many retailers generate significant portions of annual revenues and profit during the holiday months of November and December, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales accounting […] Read More

20 November, 2012

China ETFs: A Chinese Menu of Share Class Descriptions
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Courtesy of Dennis Hudacheck Investing in China is tricky. There are now more than 20 China-focused ETFs to choose from, ranging from size and style funds to sector-specific funds. As if sifting through expense ratios, liquidity and holdings isn’t enough, China investors have another big, fundamental factor to consider: Chinese share classes. Foreign investment in […] Read More

15 November, 2012

Russian Equities, ETFs: Cheap And Getting Cheaper
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Just because something is cheap does not mean it is a good bargain. Such is life for Russian equities and the relevant U.S.-listed ETFs. Amid slumping energy shares, the “R” in the BRIC acronym saw its benchmark Micex Index slip to a three-month low on Tuesday. The slide comes just a couple of weeks after […] Read More

14 November, 2012

In Your Face: Option Trading Contrarian Called $FB Move…
In People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
     Courtesy of John Carney/CNBC MarketsMuse Editor Note: article below was published Tuesday Nov 13 at 6pm, in advance of $FB lock-up  expiration. Eight hundred million shares of Facebookare set to “flood” the market Wednesday, as the company’s biggest post-IPO lockup expires. This has many investors fearful that stock sales from employees could push the stock, […] Read More

14 November, 2012

ETP Volatility Report from Velocity Shares
In ETF News, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
VelocityShares is pleased to present the October 2012 Volatility Report, providing insights into the volatility landscape. Highlights from this report include: Year-to-Date Performance for the VIX Index is -21%. Year-to-Date Performance for the S&P VIX Futures Indices: Short-Term: -74% (SPVXSP) Mid-Term: -47% (SPVXMP) Tail Risk: -20% (SPVXTRSP) VIX spot increased steadily in October, opening at […] Read More

14 November, 2012

Flows Spike in Asia ETF Market: The New Fortune…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Courtesy of Tom Lydon The exchange traded fund business in Asia has seen new inflows of $5.5 billion plus, thanks to recent regulatory changes that have created an opening. This follows a $1.42 billion inflow of new assets seen in September for the Asian ETP industry, confirming the trend. Debbie Fuhr, a partner at ETFGI, […] Read More

8 November, 2012

Boutique ETF & Options Broker Demonstrates Flawless Execution
In ETF News, People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Short post-a picture with sound tells a thousand words… Read More

7 November, 2012

CFTC Proposes to Break Up Derivatives Market Trades; ’15-Second…
In Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
  Courtesy of WSJ Reporter Scott Patterson WASHINGTON—Swaps trading is one the last bastions of Wall Street where brokers arrange deals over the phone. That clubby way of doing business could go the way of the rest of Wall Street, where trading takes place on computers, under a roughly 500-page draft set of rules designed […] Read More

26 October, 2012

What’s Next for ETF trading?: NASDAQ’s “iNAV pegged order…
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
The Nasdaq stock market submitted paperwork to regulators proposing fuller use of intraday net asset values (iNAV) in the pricing of equity ETFs, arguing that the integration of such a real-time pricing mechanism will limit the poor trade executions that dog the world of exchange-traded funds. While ETF traders and market makers would still be […] Read More

26 October, 2012

A Silver Bullet: Corporate Bond ETFs Dressed Up to…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
By Jason Kephart   BlackRock Inc.’s exchange-traded fund arm, iShares, plans to launch a series of corporate bond ETFs that look and act like individual bonds. The proposed series of iShares Corporate Bond Funds will be a set of target-date ETFs, each holding a basket of investment-grade bonds set to expire in their given year. […] Read More

25 October, 2012

Debunking The Myth re: ETF Spreads
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
A daily double courtesy of IU’s Dave Nadig ETFs can be more efficient than the stocks they track, even in surprising places. At almost every conference and ETFs 101 webinar we do, you’ll hear us saying again and again that spreads matter. In fact, getting investors to understand the importance of spreads, depth of book, […] Read More

25 October, 2012

Errors Abound When It Comes to ETF Tracking Errors
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Courtesy of Dave Nadig Here’s how I know the ETF Revolution has long since passed, and what we’re living in now is the new ETF normal: The questions from advisors are getting a lot smarter. I used to get emails about how creation and redemption worked. Now I get questions about tracking error. Unfortunately, most […] Read More

25 October, 2012

ETFs that “Tilt” for Institutional Investors
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
  Courtesy of Rosalyn Retkwa Most ETFs are still designed to track an index passively at a low cost. But the market can support only so many ETFs that simply copy an index, and with actively managed ETFs still problematic, there is a growing category in between: ETFs that use “factor-based strategies” to reweight indexes […] Read More

24 October, 2012