Counting Down The Best New ETFs Of 2010

With 2011 just around the corner, the curtain is closing on yet another year of tremendous expansion in the ETF industry. With inflows for the year at close to $100 billion, total ETF assets will recently eclipsed the $1 trillion mark for the first time. From a product development standpoint, 2010 was a record year; more than 200 new ETFs hit the market, and the pipeline has continued to fill with new ideas. Some of the exchange-traded products debuting in 2010 are direct competitors to existing funds; Vanguard, for example, launched a suite of ETFs linked to popular S&P and Russell benchmarks that undercut similar products from competing issuers on a cost perspective. But for the most part innovation continued to be the name of the game in the ETF industry in 2010, as the majority of new launches were first-to-market products that opened up new asset classes and investment [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com.