FactorShares Debuts New Breed Of Leveraged ETFs
February 24, 2011 at 09:45 AM EST
FactorShares, a new entrant to the ETF industry, has launched a suite of leveraged products designed to offer investors exposure to the differentials in daily returns between various asset classes. The new leveraged funds will give investors an opportunity to bet that one asset class will increase in value relative to another over a single trading session, providing tools to bet on the relative performance of large cap U.S. stocks, long-dated Treasuries, the U.S. dollar, gold, and crude oil. Each of the FactorShares products will offer leveraged exposure to two asset classes–one long and one short position. The five FactorShares products launching today include: 2x S&P 500 Bull/T-Bond Bear (FSE): Designed for investors who believe the large-cap U.S. equity market segment will increase in value relative to the long-dated U.S. Treasury market segment over the next day. This fund will offer 200% daily leveraged exposure to the spread between large [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: No Related Posts