US Traded ETF Sponsors

U.S. Traded ETF Sponsors

Below is a listing of all U.S. traded ETF sponsors with actively trading Exchange Traded Funds. Click on the logos to go to their web sites for more information on their individual funds. For a complete downloadable list of all ETFs in .csv format, click here.

iShares is the contribution to the world of personal investment management from Barclays Global Investors, the world's largest manager of indexed investment products.

		State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is the investment management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) and the largest institutional fund manager in the world.

PowerShares ETFs are aligned with some of the leading ETF companies as service providers, including the American Stock Exchange LLC, The Bank of New York, LaBranche Structured Products LLC, Kellogg Capital Group, Goldman Sachs & Co. and Invesco Aim Distributors, Inc.


		Powershares BLDRS are a family of exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") based on The Bank of New York ADR Index^SM, a real-time index tracking U.S. traded depositary receipts. Powershares BLDRS represent a way to diversify your institutional or retail portfolio by investing in depositary receipts at low expense ratios.

HOLDRS are securities that represent an investor’s ownership in the common stock or ADRs of specified companies in a particular industry, sector or group. HOLDRS allow investors to own a diversified group of stocks in a single investment that is highly transparent, liquid and efficient.

Vanguard ETFs range from highly targeted sectors to international markets to broad domestic indexes. Built on 30 years of indexing expertise. Designed for better market tracking. Significantly lower costs than other ETFs.

		Rydex Investments and sister asset management firm Security Global Investors are now Rydex\|SGI—a forward thinking asset management firm dedicated to providing high quality, innovative investment solutions across the asset allocation spectrum to help meet investors’ diverse and evolving needs.

		The Rydex CurrencyShares products offer investors and institutions a convenient and cost-effective method of gaining investment benefits similar to that of holding foreign currencies. The foreign currencies market is the largest and most liquid financial market in the world.

First Trust®, a unit investment trust (UIT) product line, was created in 1974, and is currently sponsored by First Trust Portfolios L.P. Since 1974, approximately 2500 products have been deposited, providing customers all over the world with strategically diverse investment opportunities.

ProShares take exchange traded funds (ETFs) to the next level, making it easy to implement complex investment strategies in a single trade. Like ordinary ETFs, ProShares offer a simple way to gain exposure to market indexes. But ProShares also provide innovative new ways to manage risk and enhance return potential in your portfolios.

WisdomTree Investments, Inc., is a publicly traded company specializing in the creation of proprietary stock indices. WisdomTree Investments is the parent company of WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc. WisdomTree Asset Management is registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is the investment adviser to the WisdomTree Trust, a family of numerous ETFs. As investment adviser, WisdomTree Asset Management has overall responsibility for the general management and administration of each fund of the Trust.

Seeks to provide investment returns that closely correspond to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq Composite Index.

		Founded in 1955, Van Eck Associates Corporation was among the first U.S. money managers helping investors achieve greater diversification through global investing.

		Today the firm continues the 50+ year tradition by offering global investment choices in hard assets, emerging markets, precious metals including gold, and other specialized asset classes.

CLAYMORE IS NOW GUGGENHEIM FUNDS

Guggenheim Funds Distributors, Inc. offers strategic investment solutions for financial advisors and their valued clients. Committed to innovation and client service, Guggenheim Funds often leads its peers with creative investment strategy solutions.


		United States Commodity Funds LLC (“USCF”), the General Partner and manager of United States Oil Fund, LP (“USO”), United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (“UNG”), United States 12 Month Oil Fund, LP (“USL”), United States Gasoline Fund, LP (“UGA”) and United States Heating Oil Fund, LP (“UHN”) does not have a web site, but instead individual web sites for each of its five commodity based ETFs.

DBX Strategic Advisors LLC (formerly known as XShares Advisors LLC and FW Advisors, LLC) was created in 2006, and is a registered investment advisor that advises five TDX Independence exchange-traded funds. On June 30, 2010, DBX Strategic Advisors LLC was acquired by Deutsche Bank. Click here to view the press release announcing the acquisition.

Grail Advisors is a San Francisco-based investment advisor created specifically to build and distribute Actively-Managed Exchange Traded Funds to the global investment community.

Known as an innovator in the marketplace, Grail combines the features of the ETF format with the experience of established active investment managers traditionally found in mutual funds and separate accounts.

GreenHaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund (GCC) is an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) that provides an innovative and efficient way to deliver broad based, diversified commodity exposure. It aims to achieve this by using futures contracts to track the Continuous Commodity Index-Total Return (CCI-TR)†. The CCI-TR is an equal weighted index of 17 commodities plus an additional Treasury Bill yield.

Direxion is a pioneer in providing sophisticated investment solutions and helping investors optimize their portfolio strategies. Our multi-directional and leveraged products offer the opportunity for investors to effectively manage risk and returns in all market conditions.

The new ETF, Global X/InterBolsa FTSE Colombia 20 ETF (GXG), which was listed on NYSE Arca in February, tracks the price and yield performance of the FTSE Colombia 20 Index, a basket of the 20 most liquid securities in the Colombian market.

The JETS Dow Jones Islamic Market International Index Fund is an Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) that seeks performance results which, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of Shari'ah compliant securities

We believe Emerging Global Shares will represent the next wave of innovation in the highly evolving world of investing and exchange traded funds (ETFs). In particular, our initial ETF family offering will seek to combine the benefits of sector based exposures with the rising powers that are the emerging markets.

ETF Securities, Europe's leading provider of commodity exchange traded products, enters the US market.

ELEMENTS are exchange-traded notes designed to track the return of a specific underlying market measure. ELEMENTS provide convenient access to markets and strategies that may not be readily available to individual investors.

Weighting by REVENUE (as opposed to MARKET CAPITALIZATION) can be a less volatile, and potentially more rewarding way to leverage the stocks in an index like the S&P 500®.

AdvisorShares ETFs offer operational and tax efficiencies, which lower investment expenses and typically improve the overall investment return. ETFs are, however, subject to commission costs each time you buy or sell.

At Jefferies Asset Management, LLC (JAM), our goal is to provide investors with a diversified suite of high quality asset management products based upon a deep understanding of the markets developed through years of experience. We seek to achieve attractive returns across various strategies in all market conditions.

IndexIQ offers next generation alternative investments that are liquid, transparent, low cost and tax-efficient.* Our ETF-based strategies help fill an industry gap, offering investors access to lower cost, non-correlated investment solutions.

ETF investors appreciate the flexibility and simplicity of being able to access important sectors of the financial markets in a single intraday trade. PIMCO’s ETF offerings are being designed to provide well-engineered solutions to a broad range of investors’ needs.

ESGShares is the first family of ETFs devoted exclusively to Sustainable Investing. Sustainability is fast becoming the economic imperative of the 21st Century global economy. Now for the first time, there's a family of ETFs dedicated to harvesting its investment potential.

One Fund invests in a broad range of stocks, including a diversity of industries, size companies and countries. By investing in One Fund, you have the potential to gain exposure to over 5,000 different companies in the U.S. and around the world. This underlying diversity in the Fund's composition may reduce volatility and increase the return potential for investors.

The ALPS Equal Sector Weight ETF (Ticker Symbol: EQL) is an ETF of ETFs that delivers exposure to the US Large Cap Equity market by investing equal proportions in each of the 9 Select Sector SPDRs. The nine Sector SPDRs are shown in the Portfolio Composition chart (right).

Faith-based investing is the newest branch of what has come to be known as “Socially Responsible Investing” (SRI). Faith-based investing through FaithShares allows a person to invest in accordance with the tenets of their specific religious denomination

Teucrium Trading, LLC (Teucrium) is the premier issuer of next-generation commodity Exchange Traded Products ("ETP"). Teucrium designs investment vehicles that offer liquidity, transparency and capacity in single commodity investing to investors and hedgers in the popular and highly liquid ETP format. With today’s ever-evolving landscape in commodity markets, the Teucrium team, with its substantial experience in commodity futures trading, has the ability to deliver ETPs in the equity format for investing and hedging without the use of leverage.

Schwab ETFs are designed to be core building blocks of a diversified portfolio. Each fund provides exposure to a specific segment of the market, offering low cost, trading flexibility, and transparency.

Factor Advisors, a New York-based asset management firm, announces the launch of FactorShares, the first family of spread exchange traded funds (ETFs) that allow sophisticated investors to simultaneously hold both a bull and a bear position in one leveraged ETF. These innovative, first-to-market products now trade on the NYSE Arca.

Following is the beginning list of sponsors outside the U.S. We will soon provide constituent lists on many ETFs from these sponsors.

		TORONTO, June 4, 2009 – Today marked the first day of trading for BMO Exchange Traded Funds, making BMO Financial Group, through Jones Heward Investment Counsel Inc., the only major Canadian financial group to offer a family of ETFs.

iShares is the world’s number one ETF provider*, managed by Barclays Global Investors (BGI).
Offering great liquidity, deep markets and tight spreads, iShares ETFs allow diversified exposure into performances of key benchmarks and asset classes including equities, fixed income, emerging markets, property and alternatives.

Amundi ETF covers all asset classes (equities, fixed income, money markets, and commodities) and geographical exposures ( Europe , US, emerging markets, and world). As one of the pioneers in the ETF market with its first products launched in 2001, Amundi ETF is characterized by its quality products, continuous innovation, and its low cost policy. Amundi ETF is an expertise of the Amundi Group. Amundi ETF has been awarded “Best Europe Equity ETF Manager 2010” as voted by the readers of ETF Express.

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions for demanding clients creating exceptional value for its shareholders and people.

The EasyETF range is a unique offer from BNP Paribas, benefiting from the combined expertise and synergy of both BNP Paribas Asset Management and BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking. Through index management expertise, methodical index selection and market making capabilities, EasyETF offers investors “the best of both worlds” with a dynamic product range of over 60 trackers listed on 4 major European stock exchanges: Euronext, Deutsche Börse, Borsa Italiana and the Swiss Exchange. It aims at giving investors access to an ever growing variety of asset classes (equity, bonds, real estate, commodities, credit, money market, Shariah compliant underlyings, emerging markets etc.), several thematics and diverse economic sectors (Bank, Health, Media…) in order to allow them to fine-tune performing asset allocation strategies.

ETF Securities Ltd is a provider of Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs) and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). ETF Securities is independently owned is the European market leader in ETCs. The management of ETF Securities pioneered the development ETCs, with the world's first listing of an ETC, Gold Bullion Securities in Australia and London in 2003 and then the world's first entire ETC platform which was listed on the London Stock Exchange in September 2006. ETF Securities has most recently launched the largest platform of thematic sector ETFs in Europe providing exposure to European firsts such as Coal, Steel, Shipping and Nuclear Power.

J.P.Morgan Structured Fund Management (JPMSFM) is dedicated to creating value by providing cutting-edge funds solutions to their clients. JPMSFM as an Asset Management company offers a full range of structured funds covering a variety of assets (ETFs, quantitative funds, tailor-made structured funds)as well as alternative investment funds capabilities (funds of hedge funds). JPMSFM has been a forerunner in the structured funds market and has shown a consistent growth in terms of assets under management.

Lyxor Asset Management - An European ETF market leader
Lyxor Asset Management, an 100% subsidiary of the Société Générale Group, manages over $114 billion (end of April 2008), of which $38.9 billion is via ETFs.
Lyxor has been active in the ETF market since 2001 and is a leader in Europe, boasting 25.19% (end of April 2008) ETF market share.

A unique range of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) from The Royal Bank of Scotland plc is now available to UK investors. With the simplicity, speed and transparency of ETF investing, you can replicate the performance of diversified indices from both Jim Rogers and Deutsche Borse. The indices were specifically chosen for their ability to offer a broader and more diversified selection of assets in either the emerging markets, or commodities. Our range of Market Access ETFs are listed on the London Stock Exchange in GBP.