Sentences with phrase «by ishares»

Cash has become king for a growing number of Canadian investors worried about the uncertain global economy, but the country's wealthiest individuals fear that a greater allocation to cash will only lead to more losses, reports a new online survey by iShares, the exchange - traded fund provider operated by BlackRock Canada.

Shortly after VRE was launched, I wrote a detailed post describing its benchmark, the FTSE Canada All Cap Real Estate Capped 25 % Index, which is quite different from those tracked by the iShares and BMO funds.

Presented by: iShares In this webinar, sponsored by Scotia iTRADE, and presented by iShares, attendees will learn about building efficient and diversified fixed income portfolios.

While at first glance, it appears that holding HXS will cost roughly twice the Management Fee of 24 basis points charged by the iShares S&P 500 C$ Hedged ETF (XSP), investors should keep in mind that HXS avoids two huge problems with XSP.

Picking the right ETF among the hundreds that are currently available is certainly a formidable task for many investors — one that has been made more difficult by iShares recent announcement that it is removing index names from a number of its ETFs.

Presented by: iShares In this webinar, sponsored by Scotia iTRADE, and presented by iShares, attendees will learn about new ways investors are using ETFs to minimize risk and capture potential opportunities within a portfolio.

These ETFs target the 1) Investment Grade Corporate Bonds — by Guggenheim, 2) Non-Investment grade corporate bonds — by Guggenheim and 3) AMT Free Municipal Bonds by iShares.

While the article is a bit old as it came out 7 months ago, «AMT Free Municipal Bonds by iShares» would be the product to explore and see if the ticker exists.

Another important note regarding the portfolios Guided Investing constructs is that they are built exclusively with low - cost exchange traded funds (ETFs) provided by iShares and Vanguard.

To find out, I looked up data on ETFs introduced before 2008 by iShares and Claymore and obtained the average trading volume data from the TSX website.

The fixed - income holdings of the fund were represented by the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY; 8.9 %).

There will be no change to the amount of management fees paid by any iShares Fund.

The Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, as measured by the iShares Core U.S. Bond Market ETF (AGG) which aims to track the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index, has bounced around this year - to - date, with little reward for greater volatility: the index -LSB-...]

A slightly different take is provided by the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index, which invests in large U.S. stocks with high dividend yields and a history of dividend growth.

The next event of interest is the seminar, hosted by Disnat and presented by iShares on using ETFs in an equity portfolio on December 19th.

Just those three funds offered by iShares gives investors access to over 4800 companies from around the world and over 1500 different bonds for expense ratios at or near industry lows.

In this post we compare funds managed by iShares and Guggenheim Investments.

All of the funds offered by iShares invest only in Investment Grade bonds (rated BBB - or above), and do not invest in any financial company bonds.

Consider a long term corporate bond fund, Ticker: LQD ran by iShares.

The fixed income portion was represented by the iShares Lehman Aggregate Bond Index Fund (AGG) and iShares Goldman Sachs Investop Corporate Bond Index Fund (LQD) from 2004 — 2008 when the iShares S&P / CitiGroup International Treasure Index Fund (IGOV) was added.

Presented by: iShares In this webinar, sponsored by Scotia iTRADE, and presented by iShares, attendees will learn about the different ways to generate income using ETFs.

The largest ETF is iShares MSCI Poland ETF (EPOL) by iShares with $ 297.42 M in assets.

The largest is run by iShares:

This was followed by iShares Core MSCI All Country World ex Canada Index ETF (XAW) with inflows of $ 33 million.

Domestic large - cap stocks were represented by the iShares S&P 100 ETF (OEF; 16 %).

New entrant Sphere has no plans to compete with the classic low - price market - cap - weighted ETFs marketed by the iShares and Vanguards of the world.

Finally, the fund's domestic bond holdings were embodied by the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD; 5 %) and iShares TIPS Bond ETF (TIP; 5 %).

For example, your Canadian equity portfolio could be compared against the S&P TSX Composite as represented by iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU: TSX), Horizon's S&P / TSX 60 ™ Index ETF (HXT: TSX), BMO's S&P / TSX Capped Composite Index ETF (ZCN: TSX) or Vanguard's FTSE Canada Index (TSX: VCE).

Q: There are many low - cost ETFs with good performance, like those issued by ishares and spdrs.

The cash and short - term investment position of the fund was modeled by the iShares TIPS Bond ETF (TIP; average weight of 15.9 %).

I'm convinced now that the tracking errors reported by the iShares tracking error tool wildly underestimates the actual tracking error.

FTSE (the index provider for many Vanguard funds) has already done so, and MSCI (whose indexes are tracked by iShares and BMO funds) seems likely to do so this year.

Chinese stocks, as measured by the iShares FTSE China 25 Index ETF (NYSE: $ FXI) spent most of 2011 and 2012 in a downtrend, though in the past two months they have shown signs of life.

PCY is being replaced by iShares MSCI EAFE (EFA), which has catapulted to the top ranking.

For sheer comfort, emerging market investors may be swayed by the iShares MSCI Emerging Market Index...

In 2013, the reference portfolio continued to be dominated by the iShares Morningstar Large - Cap Growth ETF (JKE; average 12 - month weight of 51.3 %), iShares Morningstar Mid-Cap Growth ETF (JKH; 14.4 %), Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT; 10.0 %), and PowerShares QQQ ™ ETF (QQQ; 5.4 %).

The largest ETF is iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG) by iShares with $ 50.81 B in assets.

The largest ETF is iShares MBS ETF (MBB) by iShares with $ 12.07 B in assets.

With its leaning toward government - backed issues, BND's yield of 4.4 % is just slightly greater than the 3.6 % being paid by the iShares Lehman 7 - 10 Year Treasury Index (NYSE: IEF).

The largest ETF is iShares Edge MSCI U.S.A. Momentum Factor ETF (MTUM) by iShares with $ 7.73 B in assets.

The largest ETF is iShares J.P. Morgan EM Corporate Bond ETF (CEMB) by iShares with $ 88.14 M in assets.

The largest ETF is iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) by iShares with $ 55.16 B in assets.

That was followed by the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD), which had $ 428 million in flows, and the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF, at just under $ 400 million in net flows for the week.

The largest ETF is iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF (RING) by iShares with $ 297.87 M in assets.

High - yield bonds, aka junk bonds, as measured by iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) are down, too, though by a little less.

Not exact matches

The iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF (KSA) is up close to 18 percent, surpassed only by the VanEck Vectors Egypt Index ETF (EGPT), up 22 percent, according to data from XTF.com through April 27.

Emerging markets have sold off sharply since May, as highlighted by the 22 % drop in the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index exchange - traded fund.

By contrast, many investors are moving into diversified investment - grade fixed products, such as the IShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG), which has had net inflows of $ 435 million this quarter and $ 2.2 billion of net inflows year - to - date.

One sector is financials, as measured by Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) and iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT), which are up by approximately 5 percent and 8 percent, respectively, this year.

Ringing today's closing bells are iShares by BlackRock at the NYSE and CNBC's Scott Wapner in celebration of his book, «When the Wolves Bite»