Rosalyn Retkwa • May 2012
John Hyland, CIO of the United States Commodity Funds and chairman of the new National ETF Association (Netfa), sees plenty of growth in ETFs and wants the SEC to take note.
The stand-out winners in our third annual Institutional Investor Investment Management Awards.
Dan Fuss, the winner of the Invester Lifetime Achievement Award in this year's Investment Management Awards, applies lessons learned in the Navy to risk and reward in fixed income.
Could the level of information included in revised Form ADV disclosures lull investors into a false sense of security?
The list of ETFs that borrow Warren Buffet's approach to companies with competitive advantages is growing but shows mixed results.
Exchange traded funds will soon let investors bet on physical metals without having to deal with the vagaries of the futures market.
An exchange-traded fund tied to Spain’s equity market is down sharply but may have further to fall.
Van Eck’s latest Market Vectors entry, tied to Indonesia, offers volatility along with potential upside.
While the U.S. Supreme Court is creating fresh uncertainty over the future of healthcare, ETFs are seeing good returns in most industry subsectors.
Exchange-traded funds that invest in MLPs offer tax breaks as well as substantial yields. But notes may offer an even better break, along, however, with bank credit risk.
Last Friday saw exchange operator BATS Global Markets' come spectacularly undone after a flaw in its trading system. The question now: When should BATS try again?
The mysterious meltdown of VelocityShares, the exchange-traded note Credit Suisse issued to track volatility, underscores the risk of using leverage in this burgeoning new market.
The European Commission warns that exchange-traded funds could contribute to another financial crisis, thanks to sponsors’ unregulated use of leverage.
The planned IPO has been postponed but Nikko Asset Management’s CEO-designate, Charles Beazley, still intends to expand the
With stocks up sharply, portfolio insurance is cheap, observers say.
Van Eck Global says fracking will be here to stay once new regulations are in place. Critics beg to differ.
When the world’s largest bond firm, Pimco, launches an actively managed ETF, it is likely to convince many firms who are currently on the fence about launching ETFs.
Hybrid strategy funds, ETFs that are a cross between completely passive ETFs and actively managed mutual funds, have been growing in popularity lately.
Global market volatility is helping to drive growth in ETF listings and turnover, says a World Federation of Exchanges report.
VIX-based ETFs and related products take advantage of the equity market’s ups and downs. But their apparent transaction cost savings could be illusory.
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