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Six Vanguard stock index funds have added ultra-low-cost Admiral Shares™, providing shareholders with expense savings of more than 50% over the corresponding Investor Shares in some cases. Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: With the US Equity Market sitting currently atop a longer-term Fibonacci cluster level, let’s take a look at the Dow Jones (NYSE:DIA), NASDAQ (NASDAQ:QQQ), and S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) Read more…
Eric Dutram: Earlier this week, Northern Trust, the Chicago-based asset manager best known for its banking and wealth management divisions, announced a second foray into the Exchange-Traded Fund world with the debut Read more…
Tim Seymour: Vladimir Putin has announced that he will be running for president of Russia next year. Is anyone surprised? Read more…
Forty-four percent of individual investors surveyed plan to invest more in ETFs over the next 12 months, and eight in ten who currently own ETFs say they will invest more in ETFs over the next two years Read more…
Todd Shriber: Exchange traded products were in spotlight again last week – and not in a good way – on news that a UBS trader had committed $2.3 billion in unauthorized ETF trades. When the news broke, I knew exactly what the reaction was going to be: Blame the product, in this case ETFs, not the person committing the misdeed. Read more…
Aimee Sullivan: Financial regulators and bank supervisors across Europe and the U.S. are working to develop policies to cover exchange-traded funds.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions Read more…
Robert Scott Martin: The World Bank just scaled back its forecasts on Russian economic growth for the remainder of this year as the path from here becomes “uncertain.” Read more…
Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported estimated U.S. mutual fund and exchange-traded fund asset flows through August 2011. Redemptions from long-term mutual funds nearly doubled to approximately $32.5 billion in August Read more…
J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM) announced today that it has been selected by investment management firm FFCM LLC to provide a suite of securities services, including fund administration, fund accounting and custody, along with prime custody services, for its newly launched family of equity Read more…
Matt Tucker: I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about fund churn, or turnover, and its effect on a portfolio. In general, turnover is not considered a good thing because it can lead to higher capital gains, increased transaction costs and lower returns. That said there are good reasons why Read more…
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research will hold a complimentary ETF webinar on September 14, 2011 from 4:15 to 5:15 pm EDT, the second session in the ETF Analyst Hour series. Read more…
Javelin Investment Management has announced that the last day of trading in its JETS Contrarian Opportunities Index Fund (NYSE:JCO) will be September 29, 2011. The fund failed to attract sufficient assets and investor interest. Read more…
Sue Thompson: Like most of my fellow baby boomers and younger counterparts, I don’t have a pension. And with the government facing tough questions about what to cut to get its fiscal house in order, I can’t count on Social Security benefits funding my entire future retirement. Read more…
Ron Rowland: The number of products on ETF Deathwatch held steady at 163 for September, although the membership list shows numerous changes. Ten names were added and another ten came off, leaving 123 ETFs and 40 ETNs vulnerable to shutdown. Read more…
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