New ETFs

Seasoned emerging market investors know that even supposedly diversified emerging markets exchange-traded funds are heavily allocated to Chinese stocks. Those allocations stand to increase following MSCI's June announcement that China A-shares, the stocks trading in Shanghai and Shenzhen, will...

There may not be a cure for the summertime blues, but the exchange-traded funds industry is making things interesting with a spate of new product launches. Dispelling the notion that July is a slow, uneventful time on Wall Street, new ETF launches topped double digits last week. Many of these new...

The smart beta phenomenon is starting to make its way to the world of the fixed income exchange traded funds just as bond ETFs are packing on billions of dollars in new assets. In fact, bond ETFs gathered $70 billion in the first half of 2017, putting the asset class well ahead of the record pace...

One drawback to small-cap stocks is that they historically sport valuations above those found on large-caps. A new exchange traded fund looks to reduce the high valuation conundrum associated with smaller stocks. The Legg Mason Small-Cap Quality Value ETF (NASDAQ:SQLV) debuted last week. SQLV, the...

Invesco PowerShares, the fourth-largest U.S. issuer of exchange traded funds, last week added to its already massive lineup of smart beta offerings with two ETFs that offer unique ways to play a pair of widely followed equity benchmarks. The two new ETFs are the PowerShares S&P 500 Minimum...

Oppenheimer entered the exchange traded funds industry via its acquisition of RevenueShares, a purveyor of revenue-weighted ETFs and Oppenheimer is continuing to build out that revenue-weighted lineup. Last week, the fund issuer added three new revenue-weighted ETFs to its roster. The new...

BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), parent company of iShares, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, bolstered its fixed-income footprint Thursday with the debut of four new bond funds. Two of those new products are smart beta funds while the other pair focus on environmental, social and...

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) dedicated to European equities are outperforming their U.S. counterparts this year while hauling in billions of new assets. Seems like a perfect storm for a new leveraged Europe ETF.   One such fund arrived Wednesday with the debut of the Direxion Daily EURO STOXX...

The FANG stocks – Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) – spend plenty of time in the limelight. These stocks are frequently tied to an array of exchange traded funds, namely Internet and...

Sports are woven deeply into the fabric of American culture and business, and that includes Wall Street. Just think about the impact athlete endorsements can have on stocks such as Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) and Under Armour Inc (NYSE: UAA). Now there is an exchange traded fund for that. The ProSports...

The veracity of some of the once ballyhooed "Trump trades" has waned in recent weeks, but there is still one that appears very much intact, at least in ETFs: aerospace and defense .And if recent headlines out of Washington and elsewhere are any indication, this trade won't be...

WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (NASDAQ: WETF), one of the pioneers of smart beta exchange-traded funds, added to its already robust suite of fundamentally-weighted ETFs Thursday with the debut of the WisdomTree U.S. Multifactor Fund (BATS: USMF). The new ETF tracks the WisdomTree U.S. Multifactor...

For investors seeking momentum, First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund FYC is probably on radar now. The fund just hit a 52-week high and is up nearly 29% from its 52-week low price of $30.02/share. For investors seeking momentum, First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund FYC is probably on...

Investors looking for companies that are prodigious generators of free cash shouldn't confine their search to the U.S. A new exchange-traded fund helps ease the burden of finding ex-U.S. companies with sturdy balance sheets. On Wednesday, the TrimTabs Asset Management launched the TrimTabs All...

In recent years, the ETF of ETFs has been increasingly popular with issuers of new exchange-traded funds. The latest entrant to that arena is the ClearShares OCIO ETF (NYSE: OCIO), which debuted Tuesday. The new ETF was launched by ClearShares LLC, a unit of Clearbrook Global Advisors. “OCIO...