The growing use of ETFs enables financial advisors to fulfill a strategic, active management role over client portfolios in a time- and cost-efficient way.
Electronic platforms give advisors a better shot at getting the best prices on smaller bond trades for clients. But liquidity and transparency are still huge issues.
Record stockpiles of cash make dividend-paying companies less prone to reducing dividends should sales become rocky—which makes ETF-focused funds mighty tempting.
American Realty Capital Properties, a REIT familiar to many financial advisors, has completed a merger that makes it one of the largest publicly traded net-lease REITs in the U.S.
