Paul Weisbruch

As has been widely reported during the evolution of the exchange trade funds industry, some new ETFs burst out of the gates, displaying impressive asset-gathering acumen while other rookie ETFs scuffle for awhile. Just last week, a new ETF debuted and, with some help, had $846 million in assets...

Shares of packaged foods giant Kraft Heinz Co. (NASDAQ: KHC) are down 30.6 percent over the past week and as has been reported, the impact of the company's $15.4 billion in non-cash writedowns, slashed quarterly dividend and other negative news was felt by some exchange traded funds. What...

Competition is undoubtedly intensifying in the multi-factor exchange traded funds arena, cementing the notion that luring assets is vital to the long-term viability of many multi-factor ETFs. Recently, the Oppenheimer Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF (CBOE:OMFL) became a standout asset gatherer...

Up 40 percent this year, the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF (NYSE: MJ) remains one of 2019's most impressive non-leveraged exchange traded funds. Adding to the ebullience surrounding the only dedicated cannabis ETF trading in the U.S., MJ has been a prolific gatherer of new assets this year...

The S&P 500 is one of the world's most widely followed equity benchmarks. It's also easy to understand. Its components are weighted by market capitalization. That means the largest U.S. company by market value, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) commands the biggest percentage in the...

Artificial intelligence has myriad applications and that includes some in the investment world. Some exchange traded funds are even backed by AI capabilities. The AI Powered Equity ETF (NYSE: AIEQ) is one of the original AI-powered ETFs. What Happened “The underlying fund investments in AIEQ...

Among the most repudiated single-country emerging markets exchange traded funds last year was the Global X MSCI Greece ETF (NYSE: GREK). The lone U.S.-listed ETF dedicated to Greek stocks plunged 31.2 percent last year, or more than the double the loss of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. What...

Some high dividend exchange traded funds were punished by the Federal Reserve's four interest rate hikes in 2018. Others posted impressive growth despite a challenging operating environment. That group includes the WBI Power Factor High Dividend ETF (NYSE: WBIY). What Happened The WBI Power...

Whenever Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) gets ready to report quarterly earnings, as the iPhone maker will do after Thursday's close, it pays for exchange traded funds to have substantial weights to the largest U.S. company by market capitalization. Literally. In advance of Apple earnings, traders...

Investors love their exchange-traded funds big, and they love them cheap. Predictably, those themes are benefiting Vanguard, the second-largest U.S. ETF issuer. Most of Vanguard's ETFs are large and nearly of those funds can be considered cheap. The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSE: VTI)...

Investors love exchange-traded funds. Critics can critique, but 2016's ETF inflows records were toppled with more than three months left in 2017. Underscoring the struggles faced by actively managed funds when it comes to retaining market share against ETFs, many of this year's most popular...

The Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLF), the largest exchange traded fund dedicated to the financial services sector, attempted to shake its laggard status in the third quarter, posting a solid gain of 3.7 percent. After confounding investors with its laggard ways in the first half of 2017,...

Semiconductor stocks have been key contributors to the upside experienced by the broader technology sector this year, and some investors appear to be renewing their enthusiasm for chip-related exchange-traded funds. Confirming the strength of semiconductor stocks, the VanEck Vectors Semiconductor...

Investors are flocking to ex-U.S. equity exchange-traded funds this year. The enthusiasm for stocks outside the U.S. is spread around to developed and emerging markets, with ETF investors largely preferring low-cost funds. Not surprisingly, many of the least expensive international ETFs are also...

Did you know there's an exchange traded note providing investors exposure to carbon credits? Don't worry if the answer to that question is “no” because the iPath Global Carbon ETN (NYSE: GRN) has toiled in relative anonymity for much of its just over nine years on the market....