A popular master limited partnership exchange traded note has started to trade at a premium to its net asset value once again, highlighting additional risks associated with the ETN structure. The JPMorgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (NYSEArca:...

Treasury ETFs were among the worst performers this week as investors continue to favor riskier assets and the S&P 500 pushes to fresh record highs in the wake of the April jobs reprt. Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF (NYSEArca...

Exchange traded funds have been under the microscope lately as market inefficiencies have been pegged to these tools. The recent growth of the industry has coincided with some malfunctions in the market, but is this coincidence? Larry Sw...

The biotechnology sector has positive long term implications and the indecision that loomed over the industry has subsided, according to S&P Capital. Exchange traded funds that track this sector are a sound choice for risk mitigation...

Emerging markets’ under-performance so far this year hasn’t spread to the frontier. While emerging market equities have under-performed developed world stocks recently, equities in “pre-emerging”, or frontier, markets have actually outpe...

India has the world’s second-largest population1 and one of the best long-term economic growth rates of all emerging market countries.2 India also has an educated workforce and seems to embrace all forms of technology—with, notably, abou...

The S&P 500 has broken above the 1,600 mark to a fresh all-time high. ETFs pegged to the index such as SPDR S&P 500 (NYSEArca: SPY), Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEArca: VOO) and iShares S&P 500 Index (NYSEArca: IVV) have post...

Grains have seen some signs of life this week with JJG (iPath DJ-UBS Grains Total Return ETN, Expense Ratio 0.75%) bumping right against its 50 day moving average this morning after trading with a $48 handle inside of the past two weeks....

A year ago, I wrote a blog post about an interesting phenomenon in the Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) market.  Despite negative yields on TIPS at the time, investors were pouring into the securities.  It seemed that peopl...

The two largest junk debt ETFs were set for their first back-to-back losses for the first time in nearly a month after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned investors on the risks of stretching for yield in a low-rate market for b...