Bond Kings, Bitcoin and China: Exchange-Traded Funds to Watch For in 2015
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No one can predict where the financial markets are going. But there's one very safe 2015 prediction to make about the financial services industry itself: It will keep churning out new exchange-traded funds.
One hundred ninety-nine new ETFs launched in 2014, a 30 percent jump over 2013. That expanded the total ETF universe to 1,666. And there are 1,111 new ETFs in registration, awaiting approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Among them are ETFs that would be the first ever to track activist investors, short-squeezed stocks and Saudi Arabia.