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Largest ETF Issuers

March 13th, 2010

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We just found an article on Artremis that lists all ETF issuers in the US with their total assets. The biggest one is, no surprise, iShares that is owned by BlackRock. Here is the 10-ten list of largest ETF issuers in the US:

Issuer Asset
iShares $364 billion
State Street Global Advisors $149 billion
Vanguard $92 billion
Invesco PowerShares $33 billion
ProShares $23.2 billion
Van Eck Global $12.5 billion
WisdomTree $6.5 billion
Direxion $5 billion
Rydex SGI $3.1 billion
Claymore $2.9 billion

Canadian ETF Screener

February 21st, 2010

Canadian ETF issuers

A couple of days ago, someone posted a question at Canadian Money Forum about Canadian ETF screener. The good news is that there are only four ETF issuers in Canada, i.e.:

So, as mentioned by Canadian Capitalist, we can just visit the web site of those companies and see what they have.

Alternatively, GlobeInvestor.com also provides a stock filter that can be used to search for ETFs. Go to the following URL

http://www.globeinvestor.com/v5/content/filters

and then select “ETF” in the “Security” box. Also make sure that “Toronto Stock Exchange” is selected in the “Exchange” box.

GlobeInvestor.com's ETF screener 

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Highest Paying Dividend ETFs in NYSE

February 16th, 2010

We just published a posting with the list of highest paying dividend ETFs  in Canada. Here is the same list in New York Stock Exchange.

ETFs Yield
WisdomTree International Real Estate ETF (NYSE:DRW) 26.50%
iShares Mortgage Plus ETF (NYSE:REM) 13.60%
PowerShares Asia Pacific ex-Japan ETF (NYSE:PAF) 12.80%
SPDR High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE:JNK) 11.20%
iShares Developed ex-US Property ETF (NYSE:WPS) 11.10%
PowerShares Developed ex-US Small-Mid ETF (NYSE:PDN) 10.80%
iShares High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE:HYG) 9.50%
FirstTree Developed Market Real Estate ETF (NYSE:FFR) 9.30%
PowerShares Dynamic Utilities ETF (NYSE:PUI) 8.70%
PowerShares High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSE:PHB) 8.10%

As always, we remind you to consult your financial advisor before buying any of these ETFs. Also be aware of ETFs with very low volume. As you might know, many ETFs are now in the list of ETF Death Watch. We personally owns iShares High Yield Corporate Bond ETF only from this list.

Update (19-Feb-2010): As we mentioned in our previous posting, the data are coming from GlobeInvestor.com web site as of the date of this posting. There might be differences as the stock prices move up/down or because of dividend raise/cut.

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