Breaking It Down: ETF Performance, Inflows in 2009

By Christian Magoon:India ETF products have received over $200 million of net new inflows in 2012 and why not? The performance of unleveraged India ETFs is between 22% - 49% year to date. A single iShares' India ETF, INDY, has benefited the most gaining almost $110 million in new assets - more than the next two ETFs combined.

By Hard Assets Investor: Overall inflows to commodity funds rebound from prior week’s drop-off, but the yellow metal’s price correction undercuts performance. Positive inflows of investor capital returned to commodity-related exchange-traded products this past week ending Thursday, largely thanks to precious metals.

Record Number of Homes for Sale in Melbourne Given the alleged housing shortage in Australia, it is interesting to note a Record number of houses for sale in Melbourne In June, Melbourne’s residential listings grew at a monthly rate of 6.1 per cent - almost four times the national average - and recorded a yearly jump of 27.7 per cent, more than 27 times Sydney’s annual growth of 1 per cent.

By Michael Johnston:PowerShares made a splash with the launch of four new exchange-traded products on Tuesday, rolling out a suite of financials-focused funds linked to indexes maintained by KBW. The new products will be linked to benchmarks that had historically been replicated by State Street ETFs, but that were dropped recently as the issuer made a switch to S&P indexes. The new PowerShares ETFs are:

China Play Stocks submits: In a recent article, Morningstar made this claim to support its bearish views on gold: We doubt that gold ETFs can continue to attract the tremendous amount of inflows over the long run, like they have done so far in their brief history. In fact, we've already seen net inflows into gold ETFs in 2010 (and so far in 2011) decline from their 2009 highs.

By any measure, it's been a rough few years for the employees of Hewlett-Packard, with massive layoffs, stock options under water and a constant string of new bosses.

By Xingwang Qian and Andreas Steiner Today, we’re fortunate to have Xingwang Qian, Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Buffalo State and Andreas Steiner at University of Osnabrück as a Guest Contributors. During the current tough economic situation in the industrial world, including the US and the Euro Zone, the g

Tom Lydon submits: As investors start to diversify their equity holdings, medium-sized companies and mid-cap exchange traded funds (ETFs) are standing out and experiencing greater flows of cash into the asset class.