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Michael Johnston: Financial advisors and individual investors who have embraced ETFs are generally painted as a cost conscious crowd, passing over expensive active mutual funds in favor of cheap Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Financial markets all over the globe have taken investors for a wild ride this year and many are still dizzy from all of the wild up and down swings that seem to be abundant across virtually every asset class. A sluggish economic recovery at home coupled with ongoing debt woes in the financially Read more…
Michael Johnston: As ETFs have burst on to the scene in recent years, just about every serious investor and professional money manager has taken a crash course in exchange-traded products, becoming familiar with the countless benefits and nuances of these products. Features such as enhanced transparency Read more…
Tim Seymour: Welcome to our world, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). Underperformers in the world’s emerging markets are turning into relative outperformers, and there is still time for traders to catch up. Read more…
Stocks gapped down sharply at the open yesterday but rallied steadily throughout the day to close near session highs. Still, for a third consecutive day all five major indices lost ground. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE:DIA) fell 0.9% while the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) lost 0.7%. The S&P Read more…
Tim Seymour: Now that the world has looked into the stock-market abyss, inflation seems like a relatively small price to pay to keep global credit markets and economic growth alive. This plays into your China strategy. Read more…In a roller coaster session stocks closed modestly down on Monday. The day began with stocks gapping higher but immediately being met with selling pressure. The markets slumped until the lunch hour, consolidated at the lows until 2:45 pm and then caught a bid and rallied into the close. Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Since the United States has carried a AAA debt rating since 1917, the term unprecedented has been properly applied to the possibility of a downgrade to AA. The uncertainty associated with a debt downgrade/short-term default was captured by the Wall Street Journal on Read more…
The Financial Times is reporting that Deborah Fuhr, a fixture in the ETF Industry, is leaving Blackrock. Deborah was the Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy and a Managing Director at BlackRock. Under Ms Fuhr’s guidance, BlackRock’s Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy team was responsible for advising clients on the implementation of asset allocation Read more…
This weekend, BusinessWeek did a comprehensive piece on the decline of the actively managed mutual fund in America. The trend of seeing money shift from actively managed funds to passive ETFs shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the magnitude and unabated shift of flows seems to spell the Read more…
Here are three easy ways to beat the market: Deception, irrelevance and bad math. Perhaps some explanation is in order… It’s a well-known fact that three out of four investment professionals fail to beat an unmanaged index each year. Over the long term, the percentage is much greater. Yet everywhere you go, investment advisors claim they’re generating superior results. It’s a bit confounding. So let’s take a Read more…
Tim Seymour: Plenty of news out there leaving European markets feeling sour even in the face of Greek bailout euphoria. Good time to adjust your strategic allocations. Read more…
Tim Seymour: Despite the market’s eagerness, MSCI did not reclassify any countries along the “frontier” to “developed” axis yesterday — and future changes may be hard to come by. Read more…
If you really want to test global markets’ nerve, see what happens if China raises interest rates in the teeth of the these U.S. payroll numbers. Read more…
For investors looking to generate current returns from the equity portion of their portfolio, there is no shortage of exchange-traded products offering attractive dividend yields in the current 
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