by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
Sites that sell prepackaged portfolios have attracted more than $3
billion in assets over the last three years as more investors leave
their full-service brokers.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
The PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio ETF finished firstlast year among 36 public equity funds focused on clean energy and/or clean technology, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
by Marla Brill
Advisors who have moved into alternative indexes are finding unique ways to use them.
by Mary Rowland
A look at two interesting books that recommend opposite strategies on market timing.
by
Ray Fazzi
Scottrade is launching a family of low-cost ETFs on Wednesday that are
based on Morningstar's domestic equity indexes, according to the
company.
Global X Funds has started a gold ETF that provides a way to invest in
companies that get almost all their revenue from mining the metal.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to buy Benchmark Asset Management Co.,
India's largest provider of index-tracking funds.
by James Picerno
Factor indexing is getting easier, but is it better?
Gold-mining companies will have to improve
performance and boost dividends to compete with exchange-traded
funds for investor interest, according to the world's largest
money manager.
A surge in fee-only advisors has changed the way Americans invest and propelled ETFs into the fastest-growing investment product.
Egypt's default risk fell and shares rallied as Hosni Mubarak stepped down as the country's president.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is
investigating whether exchange-traded funds are being used to hide
insider trading, a person with knowledge of the probe said.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
A new rating system to help financial advisors understand and compare
exchange-traded funds was unveiled this week at the 4th Annual Inside
ETFs Conference.
by Gail Liberman
Investors continued the gold rush last year, but how they invested varies.
by Marla Brill
Several kinds of ETFs should benefit if prices and interest rates begin to rise.
For all the talk about the runaway success of
exchange-traded funds, there's at least one sector where traditional
mutual funds maintain their supremacy: commodities.
Vanguard Emerging Market ETF became the third-largest U.S.
exchange-traded fund this week, adding to evidence that investors are migrating to the cheapest offerings.
by
Ray Fazzi
Assets in U.S.-traded ETFs rose 28% in 2010--in a market that
is still largely dominated by three fund providers, according to a
report by Standard & Poor's.
The combined market value of U.S. ETFs surpassed $1
trillion for the first time in 2010, while ETFs investing in emerging
markets and bonds receiving the most new money.
