Courtesy of Olly Ludwig at IndexUniverse.com Dennis Gartman is about as raging a bull as you can find these days. At a time when many investors remain beaten down in the volatile “risk-on/risk-off” aftermath of the crash of 2008, and uncertain about how high taxes will go in 2013, the…Read More
Extracts courtesy of a special year-end story from Terry Flanagan at MarketsMedia The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index stood at 1,380 in mid-November, down about 5% from 1,450 five years earlier. To a visitor from Mars, the similarity of the numbers could suggest that it was a quiet period…Read More
Courtesy of Rosalyn Retkwa When it comes to the broad-based emerging-markets equity ETFs, Vanguard’s MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) is clearly the top dog. As of December 11, VWO had a market cap of $58.66 billion and an average daily volume of 17.74 million shares. But back on October…Read More
December 3, New York, NY—WallachBeth Capital LLC (“WB”), the institutional agency broker specializing in options and Exchange-Traded-Fund (ETFs), announced the hiring of Matt Gohd, the trading market strategist whose contrarian market calls have been widely-followed for two decades by leading hedge fund managers and industry observers. Mr. Gohd, a…Read More
By Ari Weinberg | November 26, 2012 Pension fund managers considering expanding their use of exchange-traded funds must always bear in mind that trading ETFs is entirely different from trading stocks. Entering a transaction without a clear understanding of the market dynamics for the ETF and the underlying stocks…Read More
Courtesy of John Carney/CNBC MarketsMuse Editor Note: article below was published Tuesday Nov 13 at 6pm, in advance of $FB lock-up expiration. Eight hundred million shares of Facebookare set to “flood” the market Wednesday, as the company’s biggest post-IPO lockup expires. This has many investors fearful that stock sales from…Read More
By Ryan Issakainen Ryan Issakainen is an exchange-traded fund strategist for ETF provider First Trust. WHEATON, Ill. (MarketWatch) — One of the biggest attractions of exchange-traded funds is that they are often considerably more tax-efficient than mutual funds. Many ETFs regularly take steps to avoid the annual capital gains distributions…Read More
Courtesy of Jason Zweig / WSJ Columnist On Sept. 21, Charles Schwab, SCHW -0.74%the discount broker, cranked up its publicity machine to announce it is cutting expenses on its 15 exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, by an average of 50%, to as low as 0.04%. Invest $10,000 and you can pay as…Read More
Courtesy of the ETF Professor at Benzinga.com MarketsMuse extends our warm wishes to all of those celebrating the Jewish New Year and extending you "L'Shanah Tovah" Today's piece from ETF Professor couldn't be better timed considering the upcoming (Oct 11) European Investing & Trading Summit at London's May Fair Hotel…Read More
For those institutional fund managers, hedge fund traders and anyone else that's tired of watching the volatility shrink, the Futures Industry Association is joining with the Options Industry Council to host a special conference this week (Sept 12 & 13th) at the New York Marriott Marquis. However dry these programs…Read More
Courtesy of Forbes Contributor Ari Weinberg July 30 If you invest in exchange-traded funds, you’ve probably heard about the forthcoming service from IndexUniverse. If you really follow ETFs, you’ve probably wondered what took them so long. Years in the making, publisher IndexUniverse is finally rolling out its own ratings and…Read More
Market commentary (excerpt of July 25 desk notes distributed to institutional fund managers) courtesy of Ron Quigley, Managing Director/Head of Fixed Income Syndicate for Mischler Financial Group. While not ETF-centric per se, its a good read! [caption id="attachment_922" align="alignleft" width="125"] Ron Quigley[/caption] Tonight we’re taking a bit of a reprieve…Read More
According to today's NY Times, one of the world's savviest investors is once again taking a contrarian view, and this time its Europe. While Wall Street is continuing to wave a yellow flag whenever investing in European markets is discussed (after all, the widely-advertised risk of "Greece contagion" remains at…Read More
Courtesy of Cinthia Murphy In connection with all that news re futures broker Peregrine Financial's fraud-induced collapse, Sal Gilbertie, head of Teucrium Funds—an ETF provider offering futures-based commodities ETFs—told IndexUniverse’s Correspondent Cinthia Murphy that futures-based ETFs might be the answer to retail investors’ futures-related concerns . Gilbertie, whose firm sponsors…Read More
Editor note: For those who didn't get the"Best Ex Meets Worst Ex" memo, Ugo Egbunike from IndexUniverse spotlighted a block trade in QAI this past Monday that was apparently mangled by the executing broker, illustrating once again that ETFs are NOT stocks, and real best execution requires guidance from a…Read More
[caption id="attachment_862" align="alignleft" width="114"] Chris Hempstead, WallachBeth Capital[/caption] It took only 18 months for assets in MLP exchange traded products to grow from almost nothing to nearly $7.5bb. What’s more amazing is that while the number of ETPs available in the market has grown significantly, nearly all of the inflow…Read More
Courtesy of Peter Chapman TRADERS Magazine interview with Nasdaq OMX EVP Eric Noll unveils a new tact in the ever-changing world of major exchange strategies to attract order flow. In this case, NasdaqBx is up-ending the current industry "make-take" fee model whereby exchanges pay rebates to market-makers who improve prevailing…Read More