

While developed U.S. and non-U.S. markets indexes were up year to date through October 20, emerging markets benchmarks were treading water. The two largest emerging markets ETFs are the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets (VWO) and the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets (IEMG).

Wall Street has been upbeat in the year-to-date frame as current stress in the market has been outweighed by superb gains in the first half.

Greetings, VettaFi Voices! In recent months, we've talked about a lot of different issues, from the micro to the macro, but let's go REALLY big picture this week.

The Asia-Pacific region is set for growth, expanding as much as 4.6% this year according to the IMF's latest projections. China and India being the major driving factors for the growth of the region, take a look into ETFs which can help diversify your portfolio.

EEMV's downside capture ratio since its inception has been commendable. EEMV is heavily exposed to China and the financials sector.

As Fed rate hike worries grew in February, short-term U.S. treasury bond ETFs amassed huge assets as these bonds have lower interest rate and default risks.

Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 57.9 billion in January, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb's Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 82%. Equity and fixed income ETFs saw net buying in January, with ‘buys' surpassing ‘sells' by 10 and 20 percentage points, respectively.

Which research themes and topics are trending among advisors? That's the focus of my talk at Exchange on Monday, “Tickers, Themes, and Trends, Oh My!