[Business Wire] - WHEATON, Ill.----First Trust Advisors L.P. announces the declaration of the regular quarterly and semi-annual distributions for 36 of 43 exchange-traded funds advised by FTA. The following dates apply to today?s distribution declarations: Expected Ex-Dividend Date June 22, 2010 Record Date June 24, 2010 Payable Date June 30, 2010 Per Share Ticker Exchange Fund Name Frequency Amount First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund FDM NYSE Arca First Trust Dow Jones Select MicroCap IndexSM Fund Semi-Annually $ 0.02680 FDL NYSE Arca First Trust Morningstar® Dividend LeadersSM Index Fund Quarterly $ 0.16560 FPX NYSE Arca First Trust US IPO Index Fund Semi-Annually...
First Trust Advisors L.P. (?FTA?) announces the declaration of the regular quarterly and semi-annual distributions for 36 of 43 exchange-traded funds advised by FTA. The following dates apply to 2010 06 21 17:04
Michael Bommarito submits:First Trust recently launched a series of quant ETFs under their AlphaDEX brand. Though they were met with much speculation and conceptual praise, the majority of these funds have seen very little dollar attention.
Monday, however, saw a number of these funds with high volume, perhaps signaling an increasing interest. Below is the list of AlphaDEX funds for which I have sufficient data to calculate the majority of these parameters, sorted by the number of millions of dollars they have traded this past month.
IndexUniverse submits: Fourteen years after the first exchange-traded fund hit the market, the ETF industry celebrated a milestone on May 10th when the 500th ETF started trading.
And not just the 500th ? the industry roared past the 500 mark, to 515, as seventeen new ETFs from First Trust launched on the American Stock Exchange. Sixteen of those funds make up First Trust?s new ?AlphaDEX? family of ETFs, which use quantitative strategies in an attempt to beat the market. They are:
The American Stock Exchange [Amex] announced Thursday the launch of 17 new First Trust ETFs. Sixteen of the new funds track the performance of so-called 'enhanced' indexes managed by Amex or Standard and Poors that select stocks using a proprietary, rules-based AlphaDEX fundamental stock methodology. These ETFs include three core funds (large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap), large- and mixed-cap growth and value funds, and nine sector funds (consumer discretionary, staples, energy, financials, healthcare, industrials, materials, tech, utilities). The 17th fund is the First Trust S&P...
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