Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Actively managed ETF innovator Grail Advisors has begun trading a pair new funds aimed at the fixed-income market. The new funds are subadvised by Chicago-based fixed-income specialist McDonnell Investment Management. The new ETFs are: Complete Story » Related Reading:ETF X-Ray: ULTI is Ultimately PricedETF Trends: Come Trade with Dr. FeelgoodETF [...]

Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: ETFs focused on regional banking shares have tended to outperform the broad sector. Why is this area of the troubled financial system coming out ahead? Overall, there is speculation that smaller lenders’ credit losses are easing and that they will be less affected by potential financial regulations, John Spence for [...]

ETF Database submits: After posting strong early gains, markets finished the week in the red as weakness in the mining and technology sectors and concerns over Europe weighed on investors. “The pattern has been to sell into the weekend, wait for sovereign risk and sovereign default news in Europe, and if it doesn’t happen, the [...]

Investor Nirav submits: Almost exactly a year ago, I mentioned a paired-trade between the iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treas Bond ETF (TLT) and the AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund, Inc. (AWF). I went long AWF and shorted an equal dollar amount of TLT. Last week, I closed the position after holding it for just over [...]

Phil Davis submits: Another week another 100 points lower. Yep, that’s all it was, we lost all of 100 points more than last week, when we fell from 10,725 to 10,172 (553 points) and this week we dropped from Friday’s Dow close of 10,172 all the way down to 10,067. Yet you would think the [...]