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SEC said to be probing insider trading in ETFs
INVESTING ETFS FEB 11, 2011
SEC said to be probing insider trading in ETFs

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether exchange-traded funds are being used to hide insider trading, a person with knowledge of the probe said.

INVESTING ETFS FEB 10, 2011
Morningstar set to rate model portfolios

Morningstar Inc. is developing ratings for advisers' exchange-traded-fund model portfolios, a first for the burgeoning industry.

How to spot a doomed ETF
INVESTING ETFS FEB 09, 2011
How to spot a doomed ETF

Exchange-traded funds may be all the rage, but closures of ETFs are up 500% since 2007. Here are some warning signs that a fund may be headed for that great pooled asset in the sky.

INVESTING ETFS FEB 09, 2011
The muni bond ETFs trading at the biggest discounts

INVESTING ETFS FEB 08, 2011
More ETFs are closing as funds crowd market

With fund firms launching a seemingly endless parade of exchange-traded funds, a dark side to this glut of offerings is emerging: Portfolio liquidations, once rare, are becoming more common

IndexUniverse takes on Morningstar in ETF space race
INVESTING ETFS FEB 08, 2011
IndexUniverse takes on Morningstar in ETF space race

Research firm aims to barge into the ratings biz for exchange-traded funds; rival doing some revising as well

INVESTING ETFS FEB 08, 2011
ETF assets: $1 trillion and counting

The combined market value of U.S. exchange-traded funds surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in 2010, while ETFs investing in emerging markets and bonds receiving the most new money, Birinyi Associates Inc. said.

INVESTING ETFS FEB 07, 2011
Advisers' favorite ETF provider is Vanguard: survey

The Vanguard Group Inc. has edged out BlackRock Inc.'s iShares as advisers' most trusted exchange-traded fund provider, according to a survey released by Cogent Research.

INVESTING EMERGING MARKETS FEB 01, 2011
Advisers: Clients not spooked by Egypt — yet

While Americans in Egypt evacuate with help from the U.S. Embassy, financial advisers are considering whether investments in the embattled nation — and the rest of the Middle East — should follow.

INVESTING ETFS JAN 30, 2011
Commodities ETFs can be taxing

Investors in hedge funds and limited partnerships are used to receiving these forms, which reflect an investor's proportionate share of a partnership's taxable income or loss

INVESTING ETFS JAN 30, 2011
Vanguard ETFs rate high

Affluent investors increasingly are turning to exchange-traded funds over mutual funds, and when it comes to their sentiments about the providers of those ETFs, clients rate The Vanguard Group Inc. above all others

INVESTING ETFS JAN 21, 2011
Buying U.S. One vaults Russell into active ETFs

INVESTING ETFS JAN 21, 2011
Vanguard yanks filings for new muni bond offerings

In light of the extreme volatility in the municipal bond market, The Vanguard Group Inc. has withdrawn the documents it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch three muni bond index funds and three exchange-traded funds, as first reported on InvestmentNews.com.

INVESTING ETFS JAN 20, 2011
First Trust adding nine international funds to AlphaDex series

First Trust Portfolios LP has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch nine international exchange-traded funds as part of its AlphaDex series.

Investors clueless about ETFs: Survey
INVESTING ETFS JAN 12, 2011
Investors clueless about ETFs: Survey

Two out of three say they have little or no knowledge of exchange-traded funds; 'too complicated' for 15%

INVESTING ETFS JAN 07, 2011
Oppenheimer eyes novel way of getting into actively managed ETF biz

Glavin says firm is mulling possibility of converting mutual funds into exchange-traded funds; won't introduce 'clones'

INVESTING ETFS JAN 07, 2011
More firms likely to roll mutual funds into active ETFs

Huntington Asset Advisors Inc. may be the first fund company to convert an existing mutual fund into an actively managed exchange-traded fund, but it won't be the last, some observers predict.

INVESTING ETFS JAN 05, 2011
Rydex aims to 'own' equal-weight-ETF market

Firm has launched six such funds in the past two months – with more on the way

INVESTING ETFS JAN 03, 2011
T. Rowe Price Media & Telecommunications Fund

The acronym TMT took a beating nearly than a decade ago, when a number of telecom services (T), media (M), and the information technology stocks (T) declined sharply. Since then many diversified mutual fund managers have focused on these now recovered industries and a small number of funds have narrowed their sights to just the TMT space with success.

Huntington's mutual fund/ETF conversion could create 'whole new industry'
INVESTING ETFS DEC 30, 2010
Huntington's mutual fund/ETF conversion could create 'whole new industry'

SEC approval would generate rush of similar requests, observers say; actively managed fund likely to be launched this summer