Barclays Readies 10 New iShares Exchange-Traded Funds

 

Like Woody Allen movies and Stephen King tomes, new iShares exchange-traded funds from Barclays Global Investors continue to roll out at a surprising pace.

On Friday, 10 more iShares funds will launch, bringing the firm's iShares fund total to 56. Since introducing iShares in May, the funds have gathered $2.6 billion in assets.

Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are baskets of stocks that typically replicate an index and trade as one security on a stock exchange. Many believe they pose a serious threat to traditional open-end mutual funds because they typically offer lower costs and the convenience of intraday pricing and trading. Although the value of a traditional mutual funds portfolio changes constantly throughout the day, mutual funds typically only price at the end of the trading day. (Want to know more about ETFs? Check out Dagen McDowell's primer, "Everything You Want to Know About ETFs -- But Didn't Know How to Ask.")

The latest batch gives investors the opportunity to focus on different-size U.S. stocks in the growth or value style, in addition to European equities. Small-caps smallcap are typically defined as companies with a market capitalization marketcapitalization below 1.5 billion. Mid-caps midcap usually have a market cap between $1.5 billion and $12 billion. Value stocks are typically less flashy stocks with lower price-to-earnings pricetoearnings, or P/E, ratios. Growth stocks are often growing at a quick pace and sport higher P/E multiples.

Below is a list of the rookies along with their tickers and expenses. Each will trade on the American Stock Exchange americanstockexchange.

New iShares Roll Call
Fund Ticker Annual Expense Ratio
iShares S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Value IJS 0.25%
iShares S&P Small Cap 600/BARRA Growth IJT 0.25
iShares S&P Mid Cap 400/BARRA Value IJJ 0.25
iShares S&P Mid Cap 400/BARRA Growth IJK 0.25
iShares Russell 3000 Value IWW 0.25
iShares Russell 3000 Growth IWZ 0.25
iShares Russell 2000 Value IWN 0.25
iShares Russell 2000 Growth IWO 0.25
iShares S&P Europe 350 IEV 0.60
iShares MSCI EMU EZU 0.84
Source: Barclays Global Investors

The S&P indices focus on small- and mid-cap stocks. The Russell 3000 is a broad basket of the 3,000 largest stocks trading in the U.S. The Russell 2000 russell2000, a small-cap benchmark, is comprised of the 2,000 smallest stocks in the Russell 3000.

The S&P Europe 350 is a broad index of European securities, while the MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) EMU tracks the performance of stocks in 10 European Monetary Union member countries: Germany, France, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Spain and Netherlands.

The average U.S. stock fund's expense ratio is 1.4%, according to Morningstar. The average European-focused stock fund carries a 1.74% expense ratio.

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