First Trust plans to offer a total of 13 new exchange traded funds using its popular AlphaDex indexes.

Nine of them are focused overseas in developed regions as well as .

The company’s AlphaDex benchmarks amount to an “active” security-selection system that takes existing indexes and tweaks methodologies to try to create a better-performing product, reports Olivier Ludwig for Index Universe.

The proposed ETFs, minus ticker symbols, include:

Meanwhile, Van Eck has plans for a slate of funds that give exposure to the small- and mid-sized companies in Germany and Russia.

Market Vectors Germany Mid-Cap and Market Vectors Germany Small-Cap are the first ETFs to give exposure to smaller corporations in Germany. Van Eck is no stranger to Russia, however: it’s had the Market Vectors Russia since 2007.  Now Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap will join it.

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