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In anticipation of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, dividend exchange-traded funds have been under ample duress this year. Obviously, the Fed moved forward with its first rate hike in nearly a decade, leaving some dividend ETFs chock full of rate-sensitive sectors to face a world in...

The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) (NYSE: EEM) debuted over 10 years ago and from day 1 started taking money from the US Markets. This was seen as a sign of increased risk taking. Investors taking on the risk of Emerging markets at the expense of domestic markets. That shift in...

In quite possibly unsurprising news for those following the exponential growth of the exchange-traded funds industry, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) says institutional investors are increasing their use ETFs. BlackRock, the parent company of iShares, the world's largest ETF issuer, confirmed the...

Barring a turnaround of epic proportions, this will go down as another disappointing year for emerging markets equities and the corresponding exchange-traded funds. With just over 40 days left in 2015, the Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fd (NYSE: VWO) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets...

This is the time of year when advisors and investors start talking about the tax implications facing portfolios, and that includes portfolios comprised of exchange-traded funds. Due to the fact that most ETFs are passively managed, capital gains distributions in this asset class are usually rare....

In an announcement made Tuesday, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, said it is paring the fees on seven of its core ETFs, bringing some of the annual expense ratios on those funds to as low as 0.03 percent per year. That works out to...

Just over three years ago, BlackRock, Inc.'s (NYSE: BLK) iShares unit, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, created the iShares Core Series, then a suite of 10 ETFs aimed at cost-conscious, long-term investors. Comprised of four new and six existing funds, one of the pillars...

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, made a major splash Monday in the marriage of two hot ETF themes – currency hedging and low volatility – with the introduction of five such funds. “Four of the five funds are...

After adding $19 billion last month, exchange-traded products trading in the United States, including ETFs and exchange-traded notes (ETNs) have hauled in $145 billion in new assets through the first nine months of this year – a record for that time frame, according to ETFGI, a London-based...

Despite global volatility and a lack of clarity regarding when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds continue to gather assets at breakneck speed. After adding $19 billion last month, exchange-traded products trading in the United States, including ETFs...

BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, said Thursday it introduced the iShares Currency Hedged JPX-Nikkei 400 ETF (NYSE: HJPX). The iShares Currency Hedged JPX-Nikkei 400 ETF is the currency hedged answer to the iShares JPX-Nikkei 400...

According to data from ETF.com, there are now 1,721 exchange-traded products currently available on U.S.-listed exchanges and that number is expanding at a breakneck pace.  Just this year, a combined 100 new ETFs and ETNs have debuted amid a bifurcated global marketplace that has seen some...

The majority of assets in exchange-traded funds track well-established indices with very little turnover or evaluation of the underlying securities. This passive methodology provides a means for owning a standard benchmark, yet leaves little to be desired when trying to achieve market beating...

February was a volatile month for interest rates and asset classes traditionally linked to machinations in the bond markets. The CBOE Interest Rate 10 Year Note (INDEX: TNX) spiked from a low of 1.67 percent to a high of 2.00 percent last month amid a strong bid for stocks. This spike higher in...

The world of income investing is primarily split between high-yield stocks and those that are consistently growing their dividends. The latter category exhibits companies with consistent profits and growth that are able to reliably return capital to shareholders in ever-increasing amounts....