The concept of offering faith-based exchange-traded funds is novel, but the offerings available to prospective investors barely differentiate themselves from one another — and are often too expensive — according to a new report from Standard & Poor's.
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s effort to drum up business in its newly launched stable of exchange-traded funds by waiving commissions for its clients continues to draw intense interest from its competitors and advisers. At two separate conferences Wednesday, questions were raised about Schwab's ground-breaking decision with various levels of concern.
The Charles Schwab Corp. last week announced the launch of six managed portfolios of exchange-traded funds available through a fee-based portfolio advisory program.
U.S. One plans to file for three additional funds: a global-fixed-income ETF; a balanced ETF and a series of portfolios that will mimic target date funds.
Move comes months after competitors Charles Schwab & Co. and Fidelity Investments separately eliminated commissions on certain ETFs
Such portfolios seen as the next big push for providers of exchange-traded funds
S&P thinks it is appropriate to put a global equity ETF like IOO into the strategic or core part of a portfolio that provides broad representation in major markets.
Fidelity Investments today announced that it will offer its retail customers — and and its registered investment adviser clients via a separate program — commission-free online trades for a suite of 25 iShares exchange-traded funds from BlackRock Inc.
The Charles Schwab Corp. — in a bid to attract more trades from customers who use deep-discount brokerages — plans to lower its commissions on all online stock and non-Schwab ETF transactions to $8.95 per trade.
Investors praying for divine inspiration may have gotten their wish today when three faith-based exchange-traded funds made their debut.
Legg Mason Inc. yesterday filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking permission to offer actively managed exchange-traded funds.
Pax, based in Portsmouth, N.H., plans to list three ETFs on NYSE Arca, a division of New York-based NYSE Euronext, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week.
Firm teams with Western Asset Management to launch actively managed fixed-income fund
Commission-free ETFs are good, but they may not be best.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC today unveiled the first exchange-traded fund to invest in an index of closed-end funds.
U.S. equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds posted a seventh straight week of inflows — their longest winning run since a nine-week stretch that ended in the forth quarter of 2004 — according to data released today by EPFR Global, an industry data provider.
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