Lack of time to learn the complexities leads to lack of confidence.
Breakfast with Benjamin: JPMorgan's Madoff missteps, Prudential's bullishness, ETF inflows' lessons, gold bugs' squashed state and Kraft's Velveeta shortage warning. Plus: pot stocks vs. prison stocks.
iShares, Wisdomtree launch new funds taking advantage of the government's new floating-rate notes.
Market Vectors partnership gives U.S. investors direct access to Chinese exchanges.
A new fund seeks to provide exposure to hard-to-access Chinese stocks but the drawbacks are significant.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> A man called "Mr. ETF," plus the skinny on Dave Camp's tax plan, Edward Jones settles cold calling case, a Wall St. cop moves on and a new take on "insider" trading.
Study shows usage rose 27% annually over five years as hype has grown.
As strategists warned of calamity, investors dropped $3B a week into emerging-market funds.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Gold rides high on the taper effect, playing smart defense with a wide-moat ETF, blaming cold weather in February, stirring the income inequality pot, why you should complete your LinkedIn profile, and the SEC shows some love.
Natural-gas prices spike up, but experts warn that opportunity is only short-term.
Dealing with fractional shares proved to be tricky, but firm thinks it has the problem solved.
The biggest exchange-traded fund tracking the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market is selling at the highest premium to the value of its assets since May, an early sign that local debt may avoid a second year of losses.
WisdomTree Investments and State Street Global Advisors wasted no time getting ready to launch exchange-traded funds that will track the U.S. Treasury's latest innovation: floating-rate Treasuries.
A portfolio of exchange-traded funds is one way to avoid the high fees that come with some of Wall Street's products, and can help avoid the wolves of Wall St.
Offerings are attractive because the U.S. dollar is expected to rise against other currencies as the Fed tapers bond-buying program, eventually pushing up interest rates.
Two companies filed this week, seeking funds that don't report daily.
In partnership with SSgA, mutual fund giant dips toe into active-ETF arena.
Pacific Investment Management Co. has joined with London-based exchange-traded products provider Source UK Services to offer the first actively managed ETF focused on covered bonds.
State Street Corp., the second-biggest provider of exchange-traded funds, plans to introduce actively managed Systematic Core Equity, Growth Equity and Value Equity ETFs.
Move comes a week after Market Vectors launched identical product
