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• State St. Bullish on ETFs Despite Industry Pullback

  State Street Corp. has introduced 15 exchange-traded funds this year and says it will start more in 2009 despite a large, industrywide decline in ETF assets through the first 11 months of this year.

• ETF Launches Sputtered in Tough 2008

  This was a tough year to launch any new product, and exchange-traded funds were no exception.

• Direxion Launches Six ETFs With 300% Leverage

  Direxion Shares has launched six new exchange-traded funds that offer 300% leverage to the markets.

• Precious Metals Take a Plunge

• The Perfect Alternative

  In a bear market, finding assets with a reliably negative correlation to stocks and bonds is all the more crucial—and all the more difficult.

• Muni ETFs' First Year a Hard One

  Municipal bond exchange-traded funds have suffered a baptism by fire in their first year of existence.

• Direxion Offers ETFs with 300% Leverage

  Because people are having such a hard time obtaining credit today, noted Direxion Marketing Director Andy O'Rourke, the firm is hoping the funds will attract investors' interest.

• ETF Train Keeps Rolling

  Exchange-traded funds continued attracting new investors in October, though most of the month's $7.3 billion in net inflows came from three big names.

• Many Investors Turning to ETFs for Broad, Safe Market Exposure

  For many of the same reasons exchange-traded funds are so popular in bull runs, ETFs are appealing to investors in the market downturn.

• More Asset Managers Looking to Join ETF Game

  Even with the markets in turmoil, the current $580 billion in assets in exchange-traded funds keep building.

• Into the Red

  The market slump expands globally, and investors back home continue to short the market.

• Index Battle

  Which cost less and are more tax efficient—index-based mutual funds or ETFs?

• Wells: ETF Growth Could Include Wrap Accounts

  Exchange-traded funds, which already have a foothold within Wells Fargo & Co.'s investment offerings, could play a bigger role in its operations soon.

• Exchange Switch for Vanguard ETFs

  Vanguard Group Inc. of Valley Forge, Pa., said 34 of its exchange-traded funds will begin trading on the NYSE Arca exchange on Friday.

• More Financial Advisers Pushing ETFs

  Advisers are beginning to see the merits of ETFs' low fees, tax efficiencies and narrow slices of the market, and many are now driving asset allocation themselves by creating a basket of ETFs.

• Invesco to Roll Out Transportation ETF

  Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC plans to launch a transportation exchange-traded fund on Sept. 18.

• Claymore Unveils Shipping ETF

  Claymore Securities Inc. of Lisle, Ill., has launched what it says is the first exchange-traded fund providing access to the shipping sector.

• Hungry Alpha Seekers Chomp Up ETFs

  Alpha-seeking managers are using exchange-traded funds' long and short capabilities to garner hedge-fund like returns on any given day.

• First-Half Decline for ETF Assets

  U.S. exchange-traded fund assets fell 5.4%, to $575 billion, in the first half.

• ETFMarketPro.com Guides Investors

  ETFMarketPro.com has just launched, containing detailed information on 600 of the nation's largest exchange-traded funds and the advantages of ETF investing.

• Morningstar Taps Global RE, Currency, for New Coverage

  The company announced it has added two new categories and one broad asset class to its proprietary classification system for mutual fund portfolios.

• Active ETFs Hit the Market

  Actively managed exchange-traded funds have finally arrived, but their effectiveness so far is up in the air.

• The ETF Parade Keeps Marching On

  The endless stream of new exchange-traded funds offer advisors more precise tools. At their best, they're better mousetraps. Misused, they can become chainsaws.

• Desperate for Returns

  With emerging markets down and oil on the rise, there were very few safe bets in the second quarter.

• Sell Energy and Commodity Funds, Adviser Says

  The energy and commodities sectors have dropped significantly below their 200-day moving averages and are now in sell territory.

• Pimco Planning to Start a Bond ETF

  Pacific Investment Management Co. announced that it is planning to introduce its first bond exchange-traded fund.

• State Street Starts Ten International ETFs

  State Street Global Advisors, the Boston investment management arm of State Street Corp., launched 10 international sector exchange-traded funds.

• State Street Expects New Pacts to Boost Gold ETF

  State Street Corp.'s gold-tracking exchange-traded fund stands to draw more assets from recent agreements that allow its use in futures and options contracts.

• Barclays to Offer Target-Date & Target Risk ETFs

  Barclays is planning to launch a family of target-date and target-risk exchange-traded funds, drawing from its existing iShares.

• Middle East Exposure Offered in GCC Titans 40

  Investors can gain Middle East exposure through the recently launched Dow Jones GCC Titans 40 Index.

• Vanguard Transfers Remaining ETFs to NYSE Arca

  Vanguard has transferred 34 of its 38 exchange-traded funds to the NYSE Arca from the American Stock Exchange.

• A CEO Big on ETFs Isn't Too Keen on the Newer Models

  The chief executive of Portfolio Solutions LLC has been using exchange-traded funds since long before the hype.

• Two Wind Energy ETFs Debut

  Wind energy is the latest resource to be tapped by the ETF market as two products in this sector debuted..

• Mutual Funds Become Wrappers for ETFs in 401(k)s

  Hennion and Walsh is introducing ETFs into 401k plans by wrapping them in mutual funds.

• Bad News Benefits

  As commodities rise and financials fall, investors look to ETFs as a way to leverage failing sectors.

• Value Play

  Huntington's Scott Frush uses exchange-traded funds exclusively to keep costs low and client satisfaction high.

• Hedge Funds Tap Leveraged ETFs

  Hedge funds have recently increased their investment in aggressive, exchange-traded funds.

• Two New ETFs Target Nasdaq-Listed Stocks

  Two new ETFs were launched on June 12 by Powershares. Both deploy strategies that target Nasdaq-listed stocks, with one focused on buy-writes and the other on exposure to Internet companies.

• Claymore ETF for Frontier Market

  Claymore Securities Inc., an exchange-traded fund provider, has launched the Claymore/BNY Mellon Frontier Markets Exchange Traded Fund.

• ETFs Benefits Not Broadly Deployed by European Institutions

  While 94% of European Investors in a recent survey use ETFs on broad market indices, just 19% have tapped ETFs that track more narrow subcategories in the equity market.

• SSgA Launches Spider U.,' Reveals Active ETF, Advisers' Attitudes: Majority Perceive ETFs as Most Innovative Investment

  Although the summer has only just begun, it was "Back to School" last week here at a State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) seminar for financial advisers, on the finer points of exchange-traded funds.

• Bank of New York Mellon in Servicing Pact

  BNY Mellon Asset Servicing, a unit of Bank of New York Mellon Corp., has been chosen to serve exchange-traded funds in the WisdomTree Dreyfus family of currency ETFs.

• New ETFs Invest in Foreign Currencies

  With the dollar beaten down—7% against the euro and 6% against the yen so far this year—fund companies are offering investors the opportunity to invest in exchange-traded funds that invest in foreign currencies.

• Dow Jones ETF Index Named 'Most Innovative'

  Dow Jones Indexes was named the "Most Innovative ETF Index Provider of 2007" in the Americas at the 4th annual Global ETF Awards.

• Reader Survey: All You Need to Know to Succeed with ETFs

  ETF assets are forecasted to exceed USD 2 trillion in 2011. Isn't it time you got a piece of the pie? As we plan for our upcoming ETF conference, we would love your feedback in an 8-question survey.