Vanguard Files For The Company’s First Muni Bond ETF
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of ETF Trends’ Tom Lydon’s 6 January story. Vanguard, the third-largest U.S. issuer of exchange traded funds, has filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce the firm’s municipal bond ETF. The Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund will be the firm’s first tax-exempt index fund and ETF. Pennsylvania-based Vanguard already […] Read More

7 January, 2015

WisdomTree Case Study: ETF Best Execution
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse editor note: The following post, extracted from Jan 6 submission to ETFtrends.com is best described as an advertorial courtesy of WisdomTree Investments, one of the ETF industry’s leading Issuers. While readers of MarketsMuse might be inclined to muse “[This ‘case study’ is] Elementary, my dear Watson, totally elementary!,” MarketsMuse editors would retort: “You would […] Read More

7 January, 2015

Finally! Now You Know How to Play the Oil…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of ValueWalk. It’s the first (real) week back from holiday break, but the story is the same as it was before Christmas, and before Thanksgiving for that matter…. Crude Oil continues to fall like a lead oil filled balloon, falling below the $50 mark on Monday for the first time since 2009. […] Read More

6 January, 2015

ETF Industry’s 1st Deal for 2015: Nasdaq Acquires ETF…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of ETF.com’s Ollie Ludwig— Nasdaq, the stock exchange company that’s also pushing deep into the world of indexing, significantly added to its index-provider profile by agreeing to acquire the technical analysis and ETF firm Dorsey Wright & Associates for $225 million in debt and cash on hand. The transaction, which is expected […] Read More

5 January, 2015

The US’s Deep Freeze Gives Temporary Boost to Natural…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarktMuse update courtesy of extract from ETF Trends’ Tom Lydon. After natural gas futures dipped below $3 for the first time in two years, the commodity and related exchange traded funds are warming up on cold weather next week, but any gains may be brief as temperatures could remain above normal for the rest of […] Read More

5 January, 2015

Most Professional Investors Headed The Wrong Way First: A…
In Global Macro Strategy, slider> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse editor note: below insight courtesy of Rareview Macro LLC’s global macro strategy newsletter “Sight Beyond Sight” is a great read for investment professionals who want to start off 2015 on the right leg.   Wrong Way First (“WWF”) Trading An astute market practitioner that we are fond of once coined the trading phrase “Wrong […] Read More

5 January, 2015

Fed Does Walk Back On Leveraged ETFs; Now Endorsed…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse editor note: For those not familiar with leveraged ETFs, before reading this special column, you’ll want to get up to speed with Investopedia’s defintion, otherwise, ETF industry experts and observers have new ammunition in which to debate the pros and cons of leveraged ETF products. If you find that your debate with peers becomes […] Read More

3 January, 2015

Winklevoss Twins’ Bitcoin Trust ETF Makes Progress to go…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of extracts from Tom Lydon’s 31 December ETF Trends story. The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, famed for suing Mark Zuckerburg, claiming he stole Facebook from their own social networking site ConncetU, have started another new venture.  In April 2013, they claimed that they owned of 1% of all Bitcoins in existence. […] Read More

2 January, 2015

2015 Buy Side Trader Resolutions:Be More Targeted When Using…
In ETF News, People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of extracts from 31 December story in industry mag Markets Media.com The buy side is becoming more targeted with sell-side firms, employing a rifle rather than a shotgun approach as liquidity continues to shrink. A big factor behind this newfound independence has been the lessening of liquidity in 2014 in derivatives and […] Read More

2 January, 2015

European ETFs Look Promising for 2015
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of extract from ETF Trends’ Tom Lydon. European equities and related exchange traded funds could outperform in 2015, capitalizing on lower energy prices, an improved export outlook and potentially more European Central Bank easing. For instance, the iShares MSCI EMU ETF (NYSEArca: EZU) and the SPDR EURO STOXX 50 (NYSEArca: FEZ) both focus on Eurozone countries. Alternatively, investors […] Read More

31 December, 2014

Record Amounts Flow Into Energy-Related ETFs
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of extract from Bloomberg’s Jim Polson Bargain-seeking investors have turned bullish on embattled energy stocks, plowing record amounts into the industry. More than $3.13 billion went into exchange-traded funds holding stakes in Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB)and other energy stocks this month, even as the price of oil fell 22 percent, according […] Read More

30 December, 2014

ETFs See Large Growth in Recent Years
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketMuse update courtesy of extract from ThinkAdvisor Assets invested in U.S.-listed exchange-trade funds/exchange-traded products reached the $2 trillion milestone. ETFGI is reporting that, as of Dec. 22, ETP assets have increased 18% this year from $1.698 trillion to $2.007 trillion based on positive market performance and net new assets. David Mazza, head of research for SPDR ETFs […] Read More

29 December, 2014

Option Traders Aim For More Declines in Junk Bond…
In ETF News, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from ETFtrends.com column by Senior Editor Todd Shriber.. Exchange traded funds holding high-yield debt have stumbled this year due in large part to sliding oil prices. Some options traders are betting on further declines for the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEArca: HYG), the largest junk bond […] Read More

29 December, 2014

Cumberland Advisors’ Kotok Talks 2014’s Market and Positive Outlook…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse is pleased to re-distribute below thoughts courtesy of David Kotok, Chairman and CIO of Cumberland Advisors, the ETF-centric RIA: US markets hit successive new highs in 2014. The economic recovery seems to stay on track while gradually improving and increasing its rate of growth. Labor-force-related problems seem to be healing at an improving pace. […] Read More

23 December, 2014

ETF Issuer Spanked by SEC; CEO Present No Longer…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from 22 December edition of  Bloomberg, with reporting by Dave Michaels.  F-Squared Investments Inc. agreed to pay $35 million over U.S. regulatory claims that it misled investors about the performance of a trading strategy used by exchange-traded funds. The firm admitted that performance data used to market the strategy to mutual funds […] Read More

23 December, 2014

Investors’ Misuse and Abuse of ETFs
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from 18 December edition of  Reuters, with reporting by James Saft Here is the thing about investing: wherever you go, there you are. Which is another way of saying that we carry our problems, weaknesses and foibles as investors around with us, no matter how we approach the discipline or what […] Read More

22 December, 2014

SEC Probes ETF Pricing Structures; HY Bond ETFs and…
In ETF News, slider> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from 19 December edition of FT.com, with reporting by Tracy Alloway Extreme movements in the prices of bonds, commodities and other assets have prompted regulators at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to take a closer look at the inner workings of exchange traded funds. Wall Street’s top regulator […] Read More

22 December, 2014

Bloomberg Couples With State Street: ETF Fixed Income Basket…
In ETF News, slider, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse update courtesy of  press release issued by Bloomberg LP NEW YORK–(Business Wire)–Bloomberg today introduced the Bloomberg Fixed Income ETF Basket Tool in order to further automate the workflow and construction of fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs). The new offering provides the first comprehensive solution for clients of State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) to […] Read More

19 December, 2014