Global ETF News

News and information about international Exchange Traded Funds

Now that the domestic small-cap space has been well-covered by exchange traded funds (ETFs), providers are setting their sights on more distant lands. What has suddenly become so appealing about this heretofore unrepresented asset class?

ETF issuers are leaning toward ETFs with small-cap country exposure for a could of key reasons:

* Domestic growth is expected to lag behind that of emerging markets
* Large-caps in both emerging and developed markets correlate closely with the struggling global economy.Source

Actively managed exchange-traded funds haven’t attracted assets as quickly as some have expected, but that hasn’t slowed the race to expand ETFs beyond their index-tracking roots. Read the rest of this entry »

When four Montgomery Securities executives decided to break away from the large West Coast investment brokerage in 2002 to start their own asset management shop, they opted to use only exchange-traded funds. Read the rest of this entry »