Never mind the Ukraine or growing tensions between Japan and China. Flows into exchange-traded funds flourished in March with net inflows of US$11 billion, pushing assets in the industry up to a heady new high of US$2.45 trillion, according to a report from ETFGI.
5 lessons from Ian Bremmer at the 2014 Global Investment Conference
One topic that gets glancing treatment in the book, but has been linked to high freuency-trading (HFT) in the past, is exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Given the controversy surrounding Michael Lewis's new book and the discussion it’s opened up, I thought it would be worth discussing.
New paper explores how both perform during bull and bear markets.
As ETF investors pull their money from emerging markets, that money showing up a little further down the capital markets food chain apparently: in frontier markets. Consisting of countries whose markets and economies aren’t quite ready for prime time (think Kuwait and Vietnam), frontier economies have long-drawn attention from institutional investors keen to get in on the ground floor in markets with favourable demographics and a willingness to embrace growth.
Passive products like ETFs and index funds could help plan sponsors get around potential regulatory gaps when it comes to pooled registered pension plans (PRPPs)..
New data from analysts at Credit Suisse Trading Strategy find investors favouring trading in individual stocks over exchange-traded fund (ETF) use. As macro headlines fade, is stock picking going to trump ETFs?
How are Canadian pension funds using ETFs? Here are five key things we learned at the second annual ETF Summit held in Toronto on March 5.
Although its roots are in equities, the ETF business is moving over to the bond desk of sell side managers, where fixed income teams are becoming a lot more prominent behind the scenes, providing liquidity and keeping the market ticking along.
One hedge fund manager talks about how ETFs help investors to build unconstrained bond portfolios - a high demand area for pension funds.