Overview: Precious metals, particularly gold and silver, were hit hard last week as investors continued to re-assess the outlook for US monetary policy. The sharp rise in US real interest rates has been the main trigger for the correction in…
Commodity ETPs saw record outflows in 2Q 2013, as rising real interest rates in the US on expectations of an early end to Fed bond buying, and a strengthening of the US dollar hit investor sentiment. The combination of a…
FTSE Group (“FTSE”) has announced the retirement of its FTSE Emerging Transition Index following the successful completion last week of the six-month transition of the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund…
Commodity ETPs saw record outflows in 2Q 2013, as rising real interest rates in the US on expectations of an early end to Fed bond buying, and a strengthening of the US dollar hit investor sentiment. The combination of a…
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), announced that it was named the benchmark of choice for international equity exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the fourth annual Greenwich Associates study, Institutional Investors’ Relationship with ETFs Deepens.The study found that 88% of US institutional…
FTSE Group has been selected by Emerging Global Advisors, the asset management company specializing exclusively in emerging market ETFs, as the index provider for its EGShares Emerging Markets Dividend Growth ETF (EMDG) which listed today on NYSE Arca. EGShares EMDG…
FTSE Group announced the launch of the FTSE NAREIT Preferred Stock Index. Available in real time and as end-of-day, the index is designed to track the performance of US REITs preferred stocks. This new index extends FTSE’s existing comprehensive range…
FTSE Group (“FTSE”) has announced the retirement of its FTSE Emerging Transition Index following the successful completion last week of the six-month transition of the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund…