equity ETFs

It has been a data-rich week, culminating with the Bureau of Labor Statistics releasing the August jobs report on Friday. Despite non-farm payrolls surpassing expectations at 187,000 versus the projected 170,000, the report revealed an uptick in the unemployment rate, rising from 3.5% to 3.8%, and...

As has been widely documented, exchange-traded funds are on a torrid pace of asset gathering this year. Through the first seven months of 2017, U.S.-listed ETFs added $191 billion in new assets, easily positioning the asset class to topple the inflows record set in 2016. And as has been previously...

For investors focusing on dedicated, equity-based volatility exchange-traded funds, “low” has been the name of the game this year. However, that trend could be starting to change amid a significant recent influx of new assets to the PowerShares S&P 500 High Beta Portfolio (...