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’Natural gas outrage of the day
The natural gas market has always behaved a little oddly.
First, it’s always been hugely seasonal, thus responsible for many a widow-maker trade. But now investors and traders have to contend with the impact of fracking too,
Leveraged ETFs: not for retail investors
FT.com reporter Jason Abbruzzese submits this guest post for FT Alphaville.
These things always seem to start with the best intentions.
Leveraged ETFs are becoming an industry whipping boy,
Manufacturing arbitrage with ETFs
To the average investor, exchange traded (funds/products/commodities/notes), or ETFs for short, are simply shares which track indices. Copper, the FTSE 100, the retail sector, whatever.
Their defenders insist they have revolutionised the industry,
What’s the ETF settlement fail issue?
We’re sure the ETF experts will have a perfectly plausible explanation for the following, but at the moment we don’t know what it is.
Why is it that ETF settlement fails far outweigh any other securities listed on US exchanges,
Chinese floating exchange rate? There’s an ETF for that
Call the global ETF industry what you want, but you can’t deny that they’re not quick to react to changing investor demands.
Not even a week since news broke that China would consider some flexibility in its exchange rate,
The trillion-dollar ETP market
In case there was any doubt exchange-traded products were developing as the world’s fastest growing asset class, Deutsche Bank — an exchange-traded product issuer — has come out with its first dedicated analysis series observing the degree of the products’ recent ascent.
A price hike for DB Powershares (updated)
Here’s a curiosity.
On December 3, Deutsche Bank Commodity Services announced it would be raising fees on seven PowerShares exchange-traded funds, worth a total $9.2bn, due to the added cost of extra “commodities regulation”.
ETF traders, the new hot financial commodity?
Whereas it could be said that commodity experts were the most sought after traders just a few years back, a new industry trend is definitely emerging.
Behold the industry grab for exchange-traded-fund traders.
Did someone say commission-free ETFs?
Ron Rowland, editor of Invest with an Edge, is very excited. He’s just discovered that Charles Schwab is upping the ante on the exchange-traded fund industry by launching commission free ETFs.
In fact,
Synthetic ETF attack (updated)
Now this is interesting. Former chief executive of Eurizon, Italy’s largest asset manager, Francis Candylaftis has launched something of an attack on European swap-based ETFs.
Candylaftis’ issue, he tells the FT on Monday,
How ETFs are like mortgage-backed securities
Bedlam Asset Management takes a look at exchange traded funds in its latest market commentary (H/T paver). Specifically, at how — largely because of greed — a sound concept has once again potentially been bastardised by the financial industry.