{"id":16627,"date":"2011-01-07T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/innovation\/proshares-provider-of-alternative-etfs-launches-first-volatility-etfs\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T11:28:00","slug":"proshares-provider-of-alternative-etfs-launches-first-volatility-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/innovation\/proshares-provider-of-alternative-etfs-launches-first-volatility-etfs\/","title":{"rendered":"ProShares, provider of alternative ETFs, launches First Volatility ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post_excerpt\">The ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures (VIXY) and VIX Mid-Term Futures (VIXM) ETFs provide exposure to equity market volatility<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures (VIXY) and VIX Mid-Term Futures (VIXM) ETFs provide exposure to equity market volatility by seeking to match the performance of their respective VIX futures indexes, before fees and expenses. <\/p>\n<p>Both ETFs will list today on NYSE Arca.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until now, to access volatility, many investors have considered exchange traded notes (ETNs), which subject them to the credit risk of the note&#8217;s issuer,&#8221; said Michael L. Sapir, Chairman and CEO of ProShare Capital Management, the sponsor of the funds. &#8220;Now, for the first time, investors can access volatility with a U.S.  exchange traded fund.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>VIXY is linked to the performance of the S&#038;P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Index and VIXM is linked to the performance of the S&#038;P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures (VIXY) and VIX Mid-Term Futures (VIXM) ETFs provide exposure to equity market volatility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1471],"tags":[1748,1655,1718,1671,1716,1711,1437,2234,1909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}