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An Alternative To South Of The Border ETF Investing
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 2:17pm | 578For several years now, investing in emerging markets stocks and exchange-traded funds has proven hazardous to portfolios' health. Latin America equities and ETFs have been especially harmful, standing as obvious laggards in an asset class that is obviously lagging. Slack commodities demand, one...
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A New Year's Gift: More Commission-Free ETFs From Schwab
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 9:22am | 623Investors love a good deal, and exchange-traded funds, broadly speaking, deliver the goods when it comes to good deals. Low fees have been one of the biggest reasons advisors and investors continuously flock toward ETFs, but ETF users have other avenues for cutting costs – including...
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New Japan ETFs Emphasize Favored Investment Factor
Monday, November 2, 2015 - 4:34pm | 643Devotees of investment factors, including low volatility, momentum and quality, know that application of those factors is not confined to domestic equities or U.S.-focused exchange-traded funds. In fact, an increasing number of newly minted international ETFs adhere to the virtues of the quality...
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Currency Hedging Comes To A-Shares ETFs
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 3:18pm | 542Currency-hedged exchange-traded funds are one of the fastest-growing segments of the ETF universe. With several of these funds ranking among this year's top asset-gathering ETFs, issuers are seizing that momentum with a spate of new products. Now, investors can access Chinese A-shares, the...
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iShares Introduces Currency Hedged Version Of Topix 400 ETF
Friday, October 2, 2015 - 11:47am | 539BlackRock, 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...
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Deutsche AWM Launches New Japan Nikkei 400 ETF
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 3:20pm | 432Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management has quickly made a name for itself with the release of innovative ETFs designed to take advantage of international markets. Its Deutsche X-trackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF (DBX ETF Trust (NYSE: DBEF)) is number two on the list of top year-to-date inflows...
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Building A Currency-Hedging Framework Using ETFs
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 3:16pm | 550In a new research report released this week, Dodd Kittsley, head of ETF strategy at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, created an in-depth perspective on the effects of currency hedging. This joint effort with Abby Woodham, ETF strategist at DWAM, posed that investors with foreign stock...
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Deutsche AWM Launches 3 New Interest Rate Hedged Bond ETFs
Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 2:45pm | 430Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management has made a name for itself in the ETF world with its unique suite of China A-share and currency-hedged investment portfolios. Now, the company is expanding its reach to include a new line of interest rate hedged bond ETFs as well. On Tuesday, the...
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New China ETF Unveils Unique Emerging Market Opportunity
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 3:37pm | 413Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management just released their latest exchange-traded fund, designed to give investors a broad-based representation of China equities. The db X-trackers Harvest MSCI All China Equity Fund (NYSE: CN) began trading on Wednesday, and is designed to track a...