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One of the more obvious trends in the exchange-traded products industry this year has been the introduction of scores of new emerging markets bond ETFs. Whether it's corporate issues or sovereigns, high-yield or investment-grade, investors now have more options than ever before when it comes to...

Over time, the exchange-traded products industry has continually brought new products to market that have increasingly narrow exposures. Call them niche funds, call them too narrow, but whatever one's opinion is, there's no getting around the fact niche funds are a last frontier of sorts for ETF...

As an asset class, municipal bonds have had plenty of negative headlines to deal with in the past several years. There was the credit crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession of 2009-2010. Last year, noted analyst Meredith Whitney was featured on "60 Minutes," warning of impending doom in the muni...

The Market Vectors Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE: HYEM), the latest in a rapidly growing line of emerging markets bond ETFs debuted today, becoming the third new bond fund introduced by Market Vectors since the start of April. Investors have embraced emerging markets corporate bond...

Van Eck, the fifth-largest U.S. ETF issuer by assets and the parent company of Market Vectors, will continue what can only be described as a torrid pace of high-yield bond ETF introductions in 2012 by rolling out the Market Vectors Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE: HYEM) on Wednesday May...

Van Eck, the parent company of Market Vectors and the fifth-largest U.S. ETF issuer by assets, has filed plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission to possibly list two Saudi Arabia-specific ETFs. If the funds do come to market, they would be the first ETFs devoted to the largest producer...

Van Eck Global, the fifth-largest U.S. ETF issuer and parent company of Market Vectors, said today it is lowering the expense ratio on the Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (NYSE: IDX) to 0.57% from 0.6%. The change is effective today. That marks the second time Van Eck has lowered the fees on...

It should be a good thing that the U.S. is known as the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, but the downside of that abundant supply courtesy of various shale plays has been low prices for the clean-burning commodity. So low have prices for natural gas fallen that until a few days ago, futures languished...

It's the epitome of a catch-22: ETFs tracking non-investment grade bonds, also known as junk bonds, have become enormously popular with investors because of their robust yields. In this era of depressed interest rates, who could blame an income investor for entertaining the idea of taking one some...

Van Eck Global, the fifth-largest U.S. ETF sponsor and the parent company of Market Vectors, unveiled the Market Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat Research ETF (NYSE: MOAT) today. Using Morningstar analysis to identify companies with deep, long-term competitive advantages, MOAT will track the Moat...

Following last week's introduction of the Market Vectors International High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE: IHY), Van Eck Global's Market Vectors unit is again adding to its bond ETF with the debut of the Market Vectors Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE: ANGL). ANGL tracks the Bank of America Merrill...

Only 14 new ETFs debuted in March, a dramatic decline from January and February, but the pace looks like it's picking back up in April. As is always the case with new ETFs, some will thrive, attracting strong average daily volume and high assets under management. Some will survive with just...

Van Eck Global, parent company of Market Vectors, the fifth-largest U.S. ETF issuers by assets, will introduce the Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF (NYSE: IDXJ) on Wednesday March 21, 2012. The Market Vectors Indonesia Small-Cap ETF will be the first small-cap devoted exclusively to the...

With the rapid expansion of the exchange-traded products universe, finding sectors or sub-sectors not represented among ETFs and ETNs is a hard thing to do these days, but if one is to separate chemicals makers from the materials group, then there is no ETF devoted exclusively to companies such as...

Including today, there have been six trading days following the "election" of Vladimir Putin to his third term as Russia's president. Home to some of the worst corruption in the emerging markets universe, and that's saying something, Putin's victory was as expected as a cold day in Siberia in...