1 Year Later: EMLC Comes Through for Yield Hungry Investors

The ETF industry continues to expand at an impressive rate, with dozens of new products debuting every month and the size of the lineup quickly approaching the 1,300 mark. While each new month generally brings a number of new product launches, it also brings some important milestones for ETFs that have debuted in the past. While some investors have no problem jumping into newly-launched products, others may hesitate to put assets in products that don’t yet have a track record. For those investors facing explicit or self-imposed “age restrictions,” the first year of operations can give investors a good idea of the risk/return profile that can be expected. During the month of July, 25 various exchange traded funds will celebrate their first birthday. Many of the ETFs that launched in July of 2010 were innovative, first-to-market products. The month’s launches included the first small-cap India ETF (SCIN), a suite of... Read more