Surprising comments by Fed chief Janet Yellen on rate hikes gave bond markets a bad scare.
The expansion of iShares Core brings down expense ratios but doesn't eliminate the need for solid due diligence.
Investors considering using ETFs that seek to magnify return of a given index need to understand the risks, says S&P Capital IQ's Todd Rosenbluth.
The falloff in social media stocks is burning investors who piled into one of last year's most popular exchange-traded funds.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Ukraine heats up and fund winners and losers come into focus. Plus: Fed-speak clarity: an oxymoron? Bank loan funds fall victim to Fed policy, Obamacare drags us back to the 1950s and banks square off with Big Labor in Vegas.
ETF investors say BlackRock keeps too much of the proceeds from securities-lending business.
SEC says company overstated performance of its flagship ETF over a seven-year period, and it charged the former CEO for making false and misleading statements.
On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, the latest step the Obama administration is taking to push back against Russia, plus just how much support the Clintons have among Dow Jones Index companies, and much more.
Putting market-cap indexes in perspective.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors' nerves are fraying and that's not a good thing. Plus: Spiking demand for U.S. Treasuries, dodging corporate taxes, the ABCs of liquid alts, risk-adjusted sector performance, and boning up on your Cinco De Mayo history.
Deutsche Bank AG's asset management unit has started the first U.S.-based exchange traded fund that allows investors to buy Chinese stocks trading in both the domestic and foreign markets.
Transparency a minor issue, says RevenueShares' Vince Lowry
Exposure to variable-rate preferred stocks offers dividend income stream that moves with rates.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Sugar-coating data to downplay retirement-income challenges. Plus: Simplified Fed-speak, ETFs continue to threaten active management, leveraged-loan fund investors hit the bricks, and there are still undervalued stocks worth considering.
But there's plenty of resistance from plan sponsors
ETF assets have more than doubled every four years since 2000. Financial markets willing, global ETF assets could reach a best-case $3.1 trillion by yearend, up from 2013's $2.2 trillion. Those numbers have people like Deutsche Bank's Sebastian Mercado making interesting correlations.
'Plowhorse economy' ambled along despite some negative news; how much upside room is left?
Coffee is up 80% this year. Lean hogs are up 28%. Corn is up 13%. Gold is up 12%. Most of these same commodities were down last year, and any of them could fall at the drop of a hat. How can an investor take advantage of these markets...and sleep at night?
Expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates leads to biggest selloff since '10
Regulator says a decision will come in November.
