The exchange traded fund world got a little more exciting this year with the introduction of the first truly actively managed ETFs.
The boom in exchange traded funds appears to have come to an end.
Portfolio managers who battened down their hatches for credit market squalls, falling U.S. rates and a sagging greenback led the ranks of fixed-income performers for the 12-month period through June 30, according to Morningstar Inc.'s separate-account/commingled-fund database.
Exchange traded notes — close cousins to exchange traded funds — are starting to catch on with some financial advisers because they allow access to hard-to-reach markets.
In a market roiled with trouble and strife, advisers who keep assets under custody with Schwab Institutional appear to be picking up clients from wirehouses and do-it-yourself investors at a prodigious rate.
The second quarter hasn't been kind to mutual funds that focus on the life insurance sector.
Now that levels have been defined, you must communicate your new service levels to your clients.
Fifteen HealthShares exchange traded funds will close as part of a reorganization of the 19 HealthShares ETFs.
The group will oppose the SEC's proposal to regulate certain indexed annuities as securities.
Sales hit an estimated $24.6 billion during the second quarter, up 54.1% from the second quarter of 2007.
