Methods, systems, apparatus, and programming product for creating, maintaining, and otherwise administering new types of fixed income benchmarks and exchange-traded funds. Such benchmarks can be defined and/or occasionally, continually, or periodically redefined by the inclusion of instruments such as...
A system and a method are disclosed for using a commodity-based exchange traded fund (ETF) to implement an electronic payment currency. The commodity-based ETF provides an inflation mirror using a basket of tradable commodities such as metals, energy, agricultural products, etc. Shares of the ...
Methods, systems, apparatus, and programming product for creating, maintaining, and otherwise administering new types of fixed income benchmarks and exchange-traded funds. Such benchmarks can be defined and/or occasionally, continually, or periodically redefined by the inclusion of instruments such as...
Financial Innovation and Commodity Prices: The Emergence of Electronically-Traded Funds and Their Impact on the Price of GoldThe first commodity-based electronically-traded fund (ETF) was launched in 2004; by the end of 2010, there were over 50 commodity ETFs. These financial innovations may also...
Methods, systems, apparatus, and programming product for creating, maintaining, and otherwise administering new types of fixed income benchmarks and exchange-traded funds. Such benchmarks can be defined and/or occasionally, continually, or periodically redefined by the inclusion of instruments such as...