International and emerging markets offerings are the coolest kids at the ETF party right now, favored in a big way over traditional long U.S. equity ETFs. International ETFs saw $5 billion in new inflows in November.
Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) led all ETFs with $1.3 billion in new investments. [...]
Global X Management Company rolled out Global X China Energy ETF (CHIE) today (12/16/2009), its fifth of six planned China sector ETFs. The first two (consumer and industrial) were launched two weeks ago, technology and financials were released last week, and materials is expected before year end.
For the purposes of this ETF, the “Energy [...]
Global X Management Company is now halfway through their rollout of six China sector ETFs with today’s (12/09/2009) introduction of Global X China Technology ETF.
The first two (consumer and industrial) were launched last week, and the remaining three (financials, energy, and materials) are expected before the end of the year.
The new [...]
Four New 3x Direxion China and Latin America ETFs
Direxion, known for its 3x leveraged ETFs, launched four new funds today (12/03/09) targeting China and Latin America. The new ETFs seek 300% of the daily performance, or 300% of the inverse of the daily performance, of the BNY China Select ADR [...]
Most markets moved higher in the last week but still lost some upward momentum. The big news, of course, was the request by state-owned Dubai World to renegotiate some of its debt payments.
Coming as it did during a thin holiday market – which may not have been a coincidence – the story sparked a [...]
Global X Management Company expanded their ETF offerings today with the launch of Global X China Consumer ETF and Global X China Industrial ETF . These are the first of six China sector ETFs planned by the firm.
The new ETFs will have an expense ratio of 0.65%. The underlying indexes use a capped weighting methodology [...]
Van Eck, a leading company for providing ETF investors with access to new investment categories, has done it again.
Today’s launch of Market Vectors Poland ETF (PLND) is the first pure-play single-country ETF focusing on Poland for US investors. PLND trades on the NYSE and expenses are capped at 0.76%
I asked Tomasz Janeczko, [...]
Another interesting new entry to country ETFs is the Market Vectors Viet Nam ETF, which offers exposure to a new emerging market that has previously been unavailable to US investors
Van Eck Global launched the Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (VNM) today. Not only is this the first US-listed Vietnam fund, but it is also the [...]