Posts tagged 'XRT'

Are ETFs responsible for short-covering rallies?

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Oct 19 2011 10:00 | Comment |

In a Ponzi scheme, investors get duped into thinking their money has been invested in a profit-generating investment, when in reality their investment doesn’t actually exist.

Rather than being invested, the money paid in usually goes towards managing short-term liquidity needs. Read more

Can an ETF collapse?

| Sep 18 2010 14:02 | Comment |

By Andrew A. Bogan, Ph.D., Brendan Connor, and Elizabeth C. Bogan, Ph.D.
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Like many innovations in finance that emerge from nowhere to explode in popularity with unknown consequences, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have gone from obscurity when they were first invented in 1993 to making up more than half of all the daily trading volume on American stock exchanges today. They also made up 70% of all the canceled trades during the Flash Crash on May 6, despite representing just 11% of listed securities in the United States, suggesting that ETFs remain poorly understood by both investors and regulators. Read more