IndexIQ

The late, great comedian Rodney Dangerfield used to complain about a lack of respect. There are plenty of ETFs on the market today that face the same plight. With a constituency that is rapidly approaching 1,500 combined ETFs and ETNs, the exchange-traded products industry is bound to have a few...

There are nearly 8,000 trade associations in the U.S. encompassing major industries ranging from oil to telecom to technology. There's even a trade association for convenience stores and one for America's adult nightclubs. Now, the almost $1.2 trillion U.S. exchange-traded products industry has...

Only 14 new ETFs debuted in March, a dramatic decline from January and February, but the pace looks like it's picking back up in April. As is always the case with new ETFs, some will thrive, attracting strong average daily volume and high assets under management. Some will survive with just...

IndexIQ, the New York-based ETF issuer known primarily for its hedge fund replication and small-cap ETFs, has filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an ETF backed physical holdings of diamonds. The IndexIQ Physical Diamond Trust would be the first exchange-traded product...

It may not be a wonderful Wednesday for equities and some commodities, but oil just keeps on chugging higher. As of this writing, the United States Brent Oil Fund (NYSE: BNO) is up 1.3%, trading just pennies below a new 52-week high that was touched earlier in the session and looks poised to...

The revered January Effect is in the books but if small-caps are going to remain in style for the rest of 2012, now is the time to look at some ETFs offering exposure to this market cap spectrum. And yes, that means digging deeper than the usual suspects such as the iShares MSCI Russell 2000 Index...

Did you know that ice hockey is not the only national sport of Canada? Hockey, the sport for which are our northern neighbors are most known, is the national winter sport of Canada while lacrosse is the country's national summer sport. Fun fact #2: The iShares MSCI Canada ETF (NYSE: EWC), the...

Simply put, there's no shortage of emerging markets ETFs on the market today. There are large-cap and small-cap funds that track multiple countries within one fund and there are scores of country-specific funds offering exposure to both cap spectrums. Both segments have gotten off to fine starts...

Coming on the heels of the debut of the iShares MSCI Norway Capped Investable Market Index Fund (BATS: ENOR), the first ETF to be listed on the BATS Exchange operated by BATS Global Markets, iShares will introduce seven more BATS-listed ETFs today. The funds, which include some first to market...

News that China's Sinopec (NYSE: SNP) is paying $2.2 billion for some Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) shale assets can hardly be considered a surprise. Nor is news that Total (NYSE: TOT), Europe's third-largest oil company, is paying $2.32 billion to acquire 619,000 net acres Utica Shale acres from...