Tracking Error Creeps Up

by Murray Coleman

As the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry drifts further and further away from traditional, passive benchmarking, tracking error is moderately on the rise.

ETFR Features

A Global Sector Strategy With ETFs

by Carl Delfeld

As economies and companies around the world become more interdependent, investors and advisors need to adapt their strategies to add value and increase the likelihood that they will outperform benchmarks. Where a company is domiciled is becoming less important; what industries and sectors it operates in is becoming more important. fff

Past, Present & Future Of Exchange-Traded Funds

by ETFR Staff

ETFs are changing the investing landscape, enabling retail investors and financial advisors to build institutional-caliber portfolios on the cheap. The opening panel of the Inside ETFs conference gathered three industry experts to discuss the past, present and future of ETFs.

The New GreenHaven Commodity ETF Examined

by Julian Murdoch, HardAssetsInvestor.com

GreenHaven Commodity Services has launched the latest broad-based commodity exchange-traded fund (ETF), the GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index (GCC). They filed for it back in October, but now it’s actually in the wild, and I consider this an overwhelmingly good thing.

The Best Way To Access China

by Matt Hougan

Cap-weighted investors might not know it, but from many perspectives, they are significantly underweight China.

Customizing Model ETF Portfolios

by ETFR Staff

One of the biggest challenges for advisors is how to properly construct model portfolios that actually use all the ETFs out there today. With over 500 ETFs, it’s easy to feel paralyzed by choice.

Fixed-Income ETFs

by ETFR Staff

After a slow start, fixed income has become one of the hottest areas of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) market. At the end of 2006, there were just seven fixed-income ETFs on the market. But 40 new funds launched in 2007, and even more were in the pipeline.

Updates

NYSE And Amex To Merge

WisdomTree Files For Currency ETFs

Advent Of Active ETFs Draws Nearer

WisdomTree And PowerShares Plan India ETFs

S&P 500 Doppelganger

GreenHaven Launches “Old School” CRB ETF

Take A Gamble With New Van Eck ETF

Canada Gets Commodity Funds With Kick

Europe To Get Leveraged, Inverse Commodity ETFs

Claymore Offers Smaller Slice Of China

PowerShares Rolls Out New Preferred Stock ETF