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The Investment Company Institute today published its 2013 Investment Company Institute Fact Book online in HTML format, enhancing the accessibility of this standard reference guide on the nation’s investment companies—mutual funds, Read more…
Jeff Nielson: Once upon a time, an entity called the “World Gold Council” was created. It was supposed to be an industry trade-group, which (like all industry trade-groups) promotes the health and growth of their industry. But that’s not how it turned out. Read more…
Trading Central: From a technical view, the ETF is coming back above the 21.80 support area highlighting a tentative false breakout. Read more…
The Cohen & Steers Global Realty Majors Exchange Trade Fund (ETF), an ALPS Advisors Solution (NYSEARCA:GRI) passed $100 million in assets. The ETF, which was launched in May 2008, tracks the Cohen & Steers Global Realty Majors Index Read more…
Michael Fabian: An emerging trend I’ve identified with new ETFs that have come to market over the past year or two is that providers are now giving investors less of what they “need”, and more of what they “want”. Think about it for a moment, Read more…
Global demand for retail focused, liquid alternative investment products will reach $939 billion by 2017, more than three times the current level, according to a just-released survey from Citi (NYSE:C) Prime Finance. The growth forecast comes Read more…
Recent comments from the Federal Reserve and a growing number of economic developments including lower unemployment, have many fixed income investors wondering when, not if, interest rates will start to rise. With this in mind, Read more…
This month Arrow Investment Advisors, LLC, the advisor to ArrowShares and Arrow Funds, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the exchange traded fund (ETF) which they believe sets the standard for multi-asset, global yield investments. Read more…
I have been telling you for the last three months that mutual funds and hedge fund were dumping Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). If you don’t believe me look through all past my blog posts and you will see that almost every single week Read more…
Michael Lombardi: Since their peak in July of 2012, 30-year U.S. bonds have declined in value—they are down almost six percent. Trading above $153.00 in mid-2012, 30-year U.S. bonds now hover around $144.00, as depicted in the chart below. Read more…
Sasha Cekerevac: Complacency among investors is extremely dangerous. Many investors, both retail and institutional, have very short memory spans. Read more…
It’s frequently stated in this business that “mom & pop,” or small investors, always get it wrong. They buy too late after stocks have risen, and then sell too early after a decline and end up missing the rebound. This trend is so Read more…
Let me tell you a sobering fact about the mutual fund industry: Ninety-eight percent of all mutual funds have underperformed the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) over the last 10-years. Read more…
Moe Zulfiqar: Portfolio management is the key to growing savings over time. The implication behind this is that if an investor manages their portfolio regularly, adjusting asset classes based on market and economic conditions, they can reduce Read more…
Futures are basically flat as markets around the world see some profit taking. Some are up, some down, but there are no big stand outs. The S&P remains very extended from both short- and long-term moving averages, and there seems Read more…
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