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There is already an exchange-traded fund that offers S&P 500 exposure without energy equities, but a new pair of ETFs from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) broadens the horizons of investors looking to exclude fossil fuels from their portfolios. 2 New Ex-Energy ETFs On Tuesday, SSgA,...

Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS, and the corresponding exchange-traded funds have been a hot asset class this year. Inflation is an increasingly important topic for the Federal Reserve, and investors have been pouring billions of dollars into fixed income exchange-traded funds....

Last week in this space, citing data from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the expected growth of sector and industry exchange-traded funds were highlighted. SSgA, the third-largest U.S. ETF issuer and the largest sponsor of sector ETFs, recently polled nearly 420 advisors and wealth managers...

Election Day 2016 is less than 80 days away. Those remaining bullish on healthcare stocks and exchange-traded funds probably wish election day would come and go sooner than that, because the sector remains fertile ground for election year rhetoric. XLV Performance The Health Care SPDR (ETF) (NYSE:...

When exchange-traded funds burst onto the scene in the United States over two decades ago, advisors and investors viewed these instruments as cost-effective, efficient tools for gaining exposure to broad market indexes, such as the S&P 500, NASDAQ-100 and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. ETFs,...

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the third-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, said it is closing 12 of its ETFs. Eight of the ETFs SSgA will close are international funds, while three are US-focused fixed income ETFs. The remaining one is the SPDR SSGA Risk Aware ETF (SSgA Active ETF...

At the halfway point of 2016, it is starting to sound like a broken record, but advisors and investors are enthralled by fixed income exchange-traded funds. Year-to-date, four of the top 10 asset-gathering ETFs are bond funds and investors are pouring into plenty of others that are outside the top...

As has been previously highlighted in this space, the real estate group will become the eleventh S&P 500 sector at the end of August, separating from financial services. That means changes are afoot for the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF), the largest exchange-traded fund...

State Street Corp (NYSE: STT)'s State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the third-largest U.S. issuer of exchange-traded funds, added to its already expansive lineup of industry sector ETFs Tuesday with the debuts of the SPDR S&P Technology Hardware ETF (SPDR Series Trust (NYSE: XTH)) and the SPDR...

As has been widely documented, real estate stocks will become their own sector, separating from the financial services group, at the end of August. Initially, that announcement made in 2014, was thought to have a looming impact on the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLF). XLF, the largest...

Thanks in large part to declining Treasury yields and ample speculation that the Federal Reserve will not be able to raise interest rates as many times as previously planned, some luster has been restored to dividend exchange-traded funds. That theme extends to high dividend funds and newer...

There is plenty of academic research and data suggesting that public companies with women in key leadership roles and on the board outperform their male-dominated rivals. A new exchange-traded fund from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (NYSE: SHE),...

Just eight exchange-traded funds made all-time highs Thursday, and several of those are funds that have only been around a few months. Standard advice would be to not get too excited about an ETF that is just a few months old hitting an all-time high, but the SPDR S&P North American Natural...

Dozens of energy companies have cut or suspended dividends since the start of 2016, indicating that projections for slower S&P 500 divided growth this year are on pace to come to fruition. The news is not all bad for income investors as real estate dividends are growing. Real estate investment...

First, a personal anecdote to explain the NFL/ETF analogy that follows here. Several years ago, I was watching a professional football game with my uncle, a voracious NFL fan, when I mentioned a player (I don't remember who it was) that was a great college football player but never made it in...