Recent fund performance is leaving higher-profile competitors in the dust.
Remedies include clarifying rules for canceling trades, loosening short-selling restrictions and protecting small investors by restricting some orders.
Stock market volatility drives up the appetite for alternative strategies.
New liquidity rules would require mutual funds and ETFs to develop risk management programs and allow for 'swing pricing.'
Schwab's fund platform is expanding to 198 the number of ETFs that trade without commissions.
The trick is knowing when and where to move in or out.
Topping the list of the best-performing exchange-traded funds of the past 10 years is the PowerShares Dynamic Pharmaceuticals Portfolio, with an eye-popping return of 420%.
With the $3 trillion in exchange-traded funds worldwide expected to double by 2020, the powerful bank is preparing to launch its first line of them.
New ActiveBeta funds, which try to beat the market, give Goldman a foothold in ETFs.
Rules governing markets need to be updated because they aren't designed to cope with the proliferation of exchange-traded funds: BATS CEO.
The strategy can help deliver gains when times are good but can damage the diversification investors often blindly rely on when allocating to many index-based ETFs.
The unshakable fealty of financial advisers is starting to pay off for American Funds in the wake of historic sales declines.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20150115/FREE/150119961/j-p-morgan-funds-garner-most-dollars-from-advisers-morningstar" target="_blank">the top-selling stock-picking fund manager for the past two years</a>, is getting help selling its index-tracking ETFs from Charles Schwab.
The factor-based investor popular with financial advisers will build indexes for John Hancock funds.
Firm follows BlackRock, Deutsche Bank and WisdomTree in rolling out currency-hedged offerings.
Firm will waive a portion of its management fee and limit expenses for at least the first year of the large-cap version of its ActiveBeta ETFs.
VTL manages eight ETFs and $1.7 billion, is known for funds that use rule-based approaches to select stocks that may outperform the market.
A first for the mutual fund industry, and the cheapest offering in ETFs, an analyst says.
Tax-exempt category is actually benefiting from the dark cloud hanging over it.
Envestnet has agreed to make NextShares, a unique hybrid of mutual funds and ETFs, available to some of its 41,000 affiliated financial advisers, delivering Eaton Vance its first distribution partner for the product.
