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Canadian ETF Database

June 2nd, 2010

We have discussed a couple of times about our hobby project to help us decide what and when to invest. We have recently collected all Canadian ETFs and compiled them into a single text file. We make it available on this blog posting, just in case you need one.

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Note that we include Canadian ETFs from iShares, Claymore and BMO. We don’t include ETFs from Horizons Alpha Pro and Horizons Beta Pro. Why? We don’t include Horizons Alpha Pro yet because of liquidity reason. Most of their ETFs are currently traded with volume of less than 10K daily. We might consider including them in the future though. We don’t include Horizons Beta Pro because we don’t like the idea of leveraged ETFs.

Stay tune for more updates from us. :)

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Largest ETF Issuers

March 13th, 2010

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We just found an article on Artremis that lists all ETF issuers in the US with their total assets. The biggest one is, no surprise, iShares that is owned by BlackRock. Here is the 10-ten list of largest ETF issuers in the US:

Issuer Asset
iShares $364 billion
State Street Global Advisors $149 billion
Vanguard $92 billion
Invesco PowerShares $33 billion
ProShares $23.2 billion
Van Eck Global $12.5 billion
WisdomTree $6.5 billion
Direxion $5 billion
Rydex SGI $3.1 billion
Claymore $2.9 billion

Canadian ETF Screener

February 21st, 2010

Canadian ETF issuers

A couple of days ago, someone posted a question at Canadian Money Forum about Canadian ETF screener. The good news is that there are only four ETF issuers in Canada, i.e.:

So, as mentioned by Canadian Capitalist, we can just visit the web site of those companies and see what they have.

Alternatively, GlobeInvestor.com also provides a stock filter that can be used to search for ETFs. Go to the following URL

http://www.globeinvestor.com/v5/content/filters

and then select “ETF” in the “Security” box. Also make sure that “Toronto Stock Exchange” is selected in the “Exchange” box.

GlobeInvestor.com's ETF screener 

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