ETFs

Direxion has released three-times leveraged short-term Treasury funds to its line up of ETFs on NYSE Arca in the US.

Assets in ETFs listed globally tracking Chinese benchmarks surpassed $32bn at the end of 2009, according to research by BlackRock.

Increasingly banks and asset managers are competing for a slice of the ETF pie - and are expanding across a diversity of geographical regions. Vanguard, the third largest provider of ETFs in the US according to BlackRock, plans on launching its inaugural...

Total expense ratios are being pushed down as new entrants manoeuvre into the ETF arena. But is there room for more funds tracking the same core indices? Helen Fowler reports

Concerns surrounding rising government deficits and the outlook for the US dollar are sparking interest in gold ETPs while the growing auto-catalyst industry is boosting precious metals. Emma Dunkley reports

Noland Carter, chief investment officer at Heartwood Wealth Management, talks to Emma Dunkley about product selection and how ETFs compare with other investment vehicles

Danièle Tohmé-Adet of BNP Paribas Asset Management, the parent company of EasyETF, talks to Nick Sudbury about factors spurring market growth and differences in index management

Tom Lydon of Global Trends Investments looks at how European ETF market growth has overtaken the US

Pan-European ETF assets under management (AUM) have hit an all time high, increasing 47.37% to €162.49bn over the year, according to Lipper.

Scott Burns of Morningstar looks at the role of interest rates (little "i") in the investment universe