Bringing Light Into The ETF Darkness

Sometimes it takes a big flashlight to illuminate something as murky as ETF spreads.

ETF Data Daily: Investors Bet $171.3 Million On Short-Term Bonds

Investors preferred the short end of the bond maturity spectrum on Thursday, as the Dow closed below 10,000.

ETF Data Daily: Bonds Rake In $563.2 Million

Bonds were back yesterday as stocks broke a four-day losing streak.

ETF Data Daily: Investors Bet On Financials

Financial sector exchange-traded funds gathered $167.5 million in new assets yesterday, as investors poured money into a sector that has trailed the market over the past year.

Understanding Bond ETF Premiums And Discounts

An article from the latest issue of the Journal of Indexes: Are bond ETF prices accurate or are they subject to investor demand?

McCall’s Call: Emerging Market Debt ETFs

Should the trend be your friend when it comes to emerging markets debt? Matt McCall thinks so.

Arnott: RAFI ‘Evolution’ Could Take 10 Years

It may take 'wacky' bond markets years to embrace fundamental indexation, but embrace it they will, Rob Arnott says.

ETF Watch: August 8 – August 14

United States Commodity Funds launches broad-based, contango-killer commodities ETF; WisdomTree rolls out active emerging markets debt fund; iPath debuts 8 Treasury-linked ETNs

Siegel: No Double-Dip; No Long Bonds

Don’t get caught on the long end of the bond market, because this growth slowdown is no harbinger of a double-dip recession, Siegel says.

ETF Data Daily: $1.02 Billion Exit IWM, 'Qs'

Riskier assets get dumped as concerns about a global slowdown mount.

ETF Data Daily: $128.8 Million Into BND, LQD

Fed's announcement spurs moves into BND and LQD.

The Boiling Point: So Much For A Pairs Trade

Stock and bond prices are still moving in the same direction. Are they both right?

Bond Bubble? Vanguard Says Don’t Worry

The Business Insider is out with a great feature today detailing six 'gurus' who told us to short U.S. Treasurys over the past year.

ETF Watch: August 1 – August 7

Schwab debuts its first fixed-income ETFs; BlackRock planning long/short iShares; Claymore to transition bond index ETFs to active.

ETF Data Daily: 'Qs' Has $514.7 Million In Outflows

QQQQ and IWM top last Friday's redemptions, with two fixed-income ETFs leading creations.

Schwab Unveils Three Treasury ETFs

Schwab turns its attention to the growing world of bond ETFs.

ETF Data Daily: $200 Million Pulled from IWM

Investors, turning defensive, yank assets from small-cap ETF.

RAFI Bonds, Big Data & Fees

PowerShares Shifts To RAFI Index On Junk ETF

PowerShares junk-bond fund switches to RAFI index. Is it the future?