Locked in a price war with rivals, Vanguard has deployed a new -- and dramatic -- tactic. The fund giant plans to switch the benchmarks for 22 funds. Why? To reduce the licensing fees the company pays, and thus its expense ratios.
Pyxis hopes to gain from high-yield debt demand, prices fund lower than PowerShares' fund.
Junk bond fund deposits soar to highest this year as ETFs lead
Losing market share to index-fund specialist; 'we are not happy ...'
Pimco led all firms in inflows for the month, and the flagship Total Return Fund led all funds.
New research shows advisers helping fuel dramatic rise in use of exchange-traded funds
A new survey by Guggenheim Investments finds liquidity, not cost, is the real drawing card
iShares planning series of target-date exchange-traded funds that hold baskets of investment-grade bonds
Brokerage lowers its charges in challenge to Vanguard; BlackRock on the same trail
Retail products introduce a liquidity premium
Fee cuts are part innovation, part marketing brilliance; don't call it a war, though
ETFs poised to overtake credit derivatives by year-end as a way to speculate on junk bonds
Vanguard adds a short-term TIPS fund; plans international and emerging markets bond funds for 2013
Performance now more on par with flagship mutual fund; timing is everything
Active and ETF sales forces combined to deliver advisers more-complete advice; new core lineup of ETFs at the heart of the change
