Emerging Global Shares

Emerging Global Advisors, the ETF issuer focused exclusively on emerging markets funds, announced today it has renamed its new EGShares High Income/Low Beta ETF the EGShares Low Volatility Emerging Markets Dividend ETF. The ticker for the NYSE-traded fund will remain “HILO.” The EGShares Low...

Following up on our look at five under-the-radar India-specific ETFs earlier this week, today's “Under The Hood” segment is also devoted to India, the inflation-stricken yet still second-fastest growing major economy in the world. When it comes to India-specific ETFs and their respective issuers,...

By now it is well known that there have been two main stumbling blocks to the performance of emerging markets ETFs in 2011. First, rampant monetary tightening as a means to fight inflation, namely from, but not limited to policymakers in Beijing and Sao Paulo. Second, Europe's sovereign debt woes...

There is more to the world of industrials stocks than just Dow components Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and General Electric (NYSE: GE), though those are fine stocks in their own right. And there is more to world of industrials ETFs than just a Dow tracking ETF or the Industrial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE...

Traders and investors alike often harp on the need to have a portion of your portfolio allocated to emerging markets. Until recently, this meant that you had to park you money in a mutual fund or ETF with broad market exposure. Unlike in the U.S., where the SDPR Sector Funds let you place a...