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ETFR: Gold investor's choices widen

July 2006
ETFR Cover Story

Gold investor's choices widen

by Marsha Zapson

With the gold rush now in its fifth year, the first US ETF to hold gold mining stocks (Canada has had one for three years) began trading on the American Stock Exchange May 22.
ETFR Features

Leveraged, inverse US ETFs arrive

by Greg Newton

How long has ProFunds been trying to get its family of leverage, inverse and inverse leveraged ETFs into investors' hands?

The EM hullabaloo

by ETFR Staff

In barely a month, from mid-May through mid-June, Morgan Stanley's Emerging Markets index plunged 20%.

PowerShares' ETF avalanche

by ETFR Staff

PowerShares, the innovative Wheaton, Ill-based company that was the first ETF provider to bring the ETF industry one step closer to actively managed ETFs, has filed for 31 (count 'em) new ETFs including 10 RAFI-branded ETFs, 16 Intellidexes, and five stand-alones.