Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p PowerShares is an investment boutique firm based near Chicago which manages a family of exchange-traded funds or ETFs marketed by Invesco. Created in 2002, PowerShares funds use quantitative indices as a benchmark. There are currently over 120 PowerShares ETFs.PowerShares cover and emulate a variety of market indices; for example, the PowerShares QQQ NYSE: QQQ is designed to replicate the NASDAQ-100 Index. The PowerShares QQQ is one of the most widely traded shares on the stock market, according to writer John J. Murphy.PowerShares ETFs also cover the commodities market. For instance, the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund, or DBC, which it developed with Deutsche Bank, allows for individual investors to invest in commodities by means of its ETF. The PowerShares DB Oil Fund (DBO) deals with the crude oil index. In 2006, PowerShares offered an exchange traded fund in the private equity market in a "diversified fashion", although a report in BusinessWeek suggested that analysts thought that the fund was "something people can live without." In 2010, the firm was involved in a trademark infringement dispute with Select Sector SPDR Trust over whether trading symbols, of tickers, could be considered as brand names. In 2005, PowerShares developed a fund to allow customers to invest in "tiny companies" or microcaps; according to a report in the New York Times, the Powershares Zacks Micro Cap Portfolio owns 330 stocks which follow the index of Zacks Investment Research, and the PowerShares ETF re-evaluates these tiny companies weekly, removing those which "do not pass muster". In addition, the microcap ETF rebalances the entire index each quarter, according to the report."The 2013 William F. Sharpe Award for ETF Product of the Year went to the PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio ETF NYSE: BKLN".. }
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- Invesco_PowerShares abstract "PowerShares is an investment boutique firm based near Chicago which manages a family of exchange-traded funds or ETFs marketed by Invesco. Created in 2002, PowerShares funds use quantitative indices as a benchmark. There are currently over 120 PowerShares ETFs.PowerShares cover and emulate a variety of market indices; for example, the PowerShares QQQ NYSE: QQQ is designed to replicate the NASDAQ-100 Index. The PowerShares QQQ is one of the most widely traded shares on the stock market, according to writer John J. Murphy.PowerShares ETFs also cover the commodities market. For instance, the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund, or DBC, which it developed with Deutsche Bank, allows for individual investors to invest in commodities by means of its ETF. The PowerShares DB Oil Fund (DBO) deals with the crude oil index. In 2006, PowerShares offered an exchange traded fund in the private equity market in a "diversified fashion", although a report in BusinessWeek suggested that analysts thought that the fund was "something people can live without." In 2010, the firm was involved in a trademark infringement dispute with Select Sector SPDR Trust over whether trading symbols, of tickers, could be considered as brand names. In 2005, PowerShares developed a fund to allow customers to invest in "tiny companies" or microcaps; according to a report in the New York Times, the Powershares Zacks Micro Cap Portfolio owns 330 stocks which follow the index of Zacks Investment Research, and the PowerShares ETF re-evaluates these tiny companies weekly, removing those which "do not pass muster". In addition, the microcap ETF rebalances the entire index each quarter, according to the report."The 2013 William F. Sharpe Award for ETF Product of the Year went to the PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio ETF NYSE: BKLN".".