http://profitrend.com/etf_blog Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:33:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A is for Alpha. A is for Actively managed. The newest offerings from Horizons are the Horizons AlphaPro Managed S&P/TSX 60 ETF (HAX) and the Horizons AlphaPro Gartman Fund (HAG.UN). These are the first two Canadian ETFs with active management. Active management is what converted many mutual fund investors to ETF investors ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=18 Claymore Investments Inc will soon have two two ETFs trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange... Claymore Global Real Estate ETF and Claymore Global Infrastructure ETF. As with most ETFs these new instruments track established indexes so by investing in them, your return will be tied to index performance. The Claymore Global Real ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=8 Canadian ETF Review has now become ETF TrendTracker. The new name signals our intent to provide broader coverage of global ETFs (unlike our original focus... the Canadian ETF market). The new name also provides a reminder that we're applying our unique relative trend analysis™ (RTA) methodology with ETF equities, just ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=9 The proliferation and popularity of exchange traded funds (ETFs) is not going to top out anytime soon. The advantages (for many at least) over selecting individual common shares or commodities is far too great. But there is a new kid on the block - exchange traded notes (ETNs). First introduced ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=10 First, a quick reminder that we may not be posting updates here as often as we'd like, but the DATA & CHARTS workbook is till updated every weekend. So, those of you looking for the relative performance of Canadian ETFs or how Canada stacks up in the global economy, ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=13 With just three ETF providers in Canada so far, it's pretty easy for us to gather the latest news from each and pass it along to you here. In earlier updates we've talked about Baclay's iShares and Claymore's latest ETFs. Look to our back issues... the info won't be out of ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=14 [This update originally appeared in the Weekly Update of our sister web site, TSX TrendWatch , in March before this site was launched. The entry is every bit as applicable here as it continues to be there.] In times of turmoil like this, it's sometimes worth considering some opportunities to ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=17 As more TSX-listed ETFs come online and accumulate some trading history, they'll be add to our DATA & CHARTS workbook. Fortunately, for the time being, there are a limited number of players who are supplying us with ETFs, so it's just a matter of dropping by their web sites now and ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=16 We're starting to see a few more ETFs being added to the TSX listings. You won't see any trend data for those yet, since we need at least 10 weeks of price history to begin our computations. Unfortunately, it's not all that obvious when new ETFs appear. Papers like the Globe ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=15 OK... so we're starting out with a really bad pun here, but today's topic is BRIC. No, that's not a typo. That stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China. Now what could those countries possibly have in common and why should we care? We'll get to that, but first, let's introduce ... http://profitrend.com/etf_blog/?p=12