The combined total launches last year of exchange traded funds, variable annuities and closed-end funds surpassed open-end mutual fund launches for the first time, according to Boston-based research firm Cerulli Associates Inc.
Barclays PLC plans to raise $8.9 billion through the issuance of new shares as part of an effort to shore up its balance sheet.
As an innovation, ETFs have no peer.
A handful of exchange traded funds are looking to give investors access to frontier markets, or countries that are less developed than traditional emerging markets.
Barclays PLC might receive about $927 million from Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. to bolster its depleted balance sheet.
The ETNs are designed to track the short and leveraged performance of base metals and oil.
Total assets at the end of the month were $612 billion, according to State Street Global Advisors.
Select Sector ETFs aim to offer magnified and inverse exposure to indexes in the energy, financial, technology and health-care sectors.
The mutual fund industry, buffeted by volatile markets, unprecedented scandals and new competition, has had a tough time over the past 10 years.
Exchange traded funds were an oddity at the start of the decade.
In 2018, the mutual fund business will look much like today's, industry experts predict.
Three exchange traded funds from The Vanguard Group Inc. declared a 2-for-1 stock split today.
The SEC approved trading in options on the Gold Trust shares and the CFTC approved trading in futures on them.
Creating what may be a new product category, Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC has launched three exchange traded funds that invest solely in other ETFs.
Russia's eight-plus-year economic expansion has spread into parts of the country's consumer and retail sectors, presenting a potentially new angle for participation among financial advisers and their clients.
Faced with waves of new exchange traded products, financial advisers are at a loss as to how best to put them to work, a dilemma that is leading product providers to offer more robust educational services.
Bob Luxenberg was trying to decide where to invest several million dollars that he had earned building technology businesses in Silicon Valley when he unearthed his latest venture.
The ETFs will seek to earn current income reflective of money market rates available to U.S. investors in the specified country or region.
Introduced five years ago, the Rydex S&P Equal Weight Exchange Traded Fund opened the gates to investments pegged to indexes that use some measure other than market capitalization to determine company weightings.
The time is drawing near for comments requested by the Department of the Treasury regarding changing the taxation of exchange traded notes and other prepaid forward contracts.
