The Canadian ETF industry has $84 billion in assets under management, an increase of more than 10% compared to the end of 2014, reports Advisor.ca.
Could be the ETF industry has just been handed a 415-pound game changer by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In response to ongoing concerns about the ability of ETFs to deliver their liquidity promise to investors, the SEC is now proposing rules to ensure providers can meet investor redemptions in the event of a panic - without completely blowing up the market in the process.
Advisor.ca reports that iShares, the ETF business of Blackrock Asset Management Canada, has launched a suite of iShares FactorSelect ETFs.
What's become known as the “Abenomics trade” is falling out of favour particularly in the wake of Standard & Poor’s downgrade of Japan’s debt. What does this mean for Japan equity ETFs?
As investors reeled from big market gyrations in August, some holders of ETFs were startled by the sharp difference between the price of their equity ETF shares and the value of the underlying stocks. That’s according to an article recently published in the Wall Street Journal that looks at the behaviour of ETFs on August 24th.
Turns out all that market turmoil last month did nothing to slow down the growth of ETFs. According to new data from BlackRock global ETFs took in US$17.2 billion mainly driven by non-U.S. developed markets equity and fixed income.
While much-needed attention is being paid to liquidity, there’s another piece of ETF mechanics investors ought to be aware of—the underlying index. A good article in the Financial Times a couple of weeks ago unpacks some of the key issues with many bond indices, including the outsized impact of the weakest performers.
So far as I write this it’s been a nasty Monday morning for global equity markets as investors reacted to bad news from China and a host of other political and economic threats around the world. Against a backdrop clearly marked by flashing red screens, a few ETF headlines stand out against the gloom and doom.
new paper by a group of academics finds that the growing popularity of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is leading to some unwanted side effects -- higher trading costs and less analyst coverage for stocks with high ETF ownership.
Another day, another set of data showing record inflows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs), continuing the upward trend we’ve seen over the last few years.