E*Trade Adds More Commission-Free ETFs

E*Trade Financial Corporation ETFC, one of the largest discount brokers, added to its offering of commission-free exchange-traded funds in significant fashion last week, announcing it has added 47 ETFs from five providers to its commission-free stable since the start of 2017.

E*Trade Initiative

Issuers making their debut on E*Trade's commission-free ETF platform are ETF Securities, Guggenheim Investments, IndexIQ, John Hancock and JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM's JPMorgan Asset Management.

E*Trade clients can now trade 133 ETFs on a commission-free basis and 4,400 no-transaction-fee mutual funds, according to a statement.

Among the well-known ETFs just added to E*Trade's commission-free roster are the ETFS Gold Trust SGOL, Silver Trust SIVR and the Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF RSP.

Related Link: PowerShares Launches 4 Multi-Asset ETFs

Additionally, all of Guggenheim's equal-weight sector ETFs along with equal-weight spins on the S&P SmallCap Index and the S&P MidCap 400 Index are now available on E*Trade without commissions.

Two of John Hancock's broad market smart beta ETFs and nine of the issuer's smart beta sector ETFs are available to E*Trade clients commission-free.

Other new additions to the E*Trade commission-free ETF lineup include the JPMorgan Diversified Return U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF JPME and the JPMorgan Diversified Return Emerging Markets Equity ETF JPEM.

36 ETFs

In January, E*Trade announced the addition of 36 ETFs to commission-free platform.

A full list of the 47 ETFs recently added to E*Trade's no-commission suite is available here.

Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs
Comments
Loading...
Posted In: Long IdeasNewsBroad U.S. Equity ETFsSpecialty ETFsCommoditiesMarketsTrading IdeasETFs
Benzinga simplifies the market for smarter investing

Trade confidently with insights and alerts from analyst ratings, free reports and breaking news that affects the stocks you care about.

Join Now: Free!