Money manager asks the SEC for permission to build exotic funds.
Those who understand this emerging shift early will be well-positioned to help their clients grow their portfolios.
Intraday trading is makes exchange-traded funds special but can also make them dangerous, market players say.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: All the messy stock market turmoil of the past few weeks has created a sweet opportunity in the closed-end funds space.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Now that the dust has started to settle, China's stock market meltdown doesn't seem all that awful.
Analysts say price discrepancies are a reminder for advisers to use best practices when trading funds.
First ETF to offer equal-weighted exposure to a REIT index.
Endowments, pensions, foundations like the funds' ability to quickly and easily gain access to indexes or commodities not easily investible.
Timing is key as fund, with the ticker symbol HACK, launched just before the Sony Pictures computer network was broken into.
A proposal designed to put actively managed products on par with index funds in the ETF universe by allowing their holdings to be non-transparent is going back in front of securities regulators.
Eaton Vance looks to win the "VHS/Betamax war" for the future of actively managed investments.
Advisers say the presidential hopeful and real estate mogul's investments reveal a scattered approach to money management. <i>(See <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20150723/FREE/723009998/PH"" target=""_blank"" rel="noopener">the top five fund companies holding Mr. Trump's money</a>.)</i>
In the past 12 months investors traded $18.2 trillion worth of exchange-traded fund shares, which means the amount of dollars exchanging hands through ETFs is now more than the U.S. gross domestic product, which stands at $17.4 trillion.
The compounding effect in leveraged ETFs is a bit like a full moon. It's pretty when it happens, but it is the exception and not the norm. Normally, the daily resetting can hurt investors over longer holding periods. Gold miner ETFs offer a case study.
Although the exchange-traded product business is booming, that doesn't mean a lot of funds aren't being closed, which could be one sign of a healthy market.
Former PowerShares executive says the exchange-traded fund world includes “some really ill-conceived ideas.”
Fixed income funds suffer as investors see the Federal Reserve getting closer to raising rates
Among U.S.-listed exchange-traded products, 10 “socially responsible” products account for only $1.14 billion, or just 0.06% of ETP assets.
Pandering move says plenty about the candidate and her economic sense.
It looks like somebody got killed on this after-hours exchange-traded note trade. The lesson? Beware thinly traded securities with a bid/ask spread you could drive a truck through.
