In the age of ascendant ETFs, some have written off mutual funds as irrelevant, but advisers need to know the nuances of each type of fund
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Security guard/waiter/travel agent posing as a hedge fund manager has been convicted of stealing more than $800,000 from 17 investors.
Mutual fund outflows can spell capital gains disaster and this year, some funds with low turnover are reporting sizable capital gains distributions as managers sell securities to meet investor withdrawals.
The SPDR S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Free ETF is a greener version of the world's first and largest ETF.
While Washington has long been debating how to reform big Wall Street banks, Vanguard is quietly doing just that as the company and its army of index funds remove about $20 billion a year in revenue from the financial industry.
For the first time, fund manager saw roughly equal deposits into equity and fixed-income ETFs as investor demand for bond products increased.
Appears that mixed-gender portfolio management teams tend to generate better performance
Carl Icahn criticized asset management firms such as BlackRock for selling ETFs that give an illusion of liquidity for “extremely illiquid, and extremely overpriced” securities such as high yield bonds. But BlackRock CEO Larry Fink disputed the characterization.
Emphasizing defense and true diversification in ETF choices can provide protection.
Expense ratios on 'core' exchange-traded funds to drop to as low as 0.03%; new fund launched.
Stability of funds in volatile markets remains a concern for investors and regulators.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The financial markets are likely to be swept up in the immediate unrest following Friday's terror attacks in Paris.
ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT) has attracted nearly $10 billion worth of inflows in its life but has only $2.8 billion to show for it today.
ARK Investment Management says the capricious cryptocurrency is a buy in the wake of emerging market volatility
Poor performance could send the income-generating category back to direct investing, where it belongs.
Strategists say pricing anomalies should be considered buying opportunity as Fed action expected to be small.
Massachusetts' top securities cop is investigating the failure of an accounting platform he said delayed correct pricing for billions of dollars in mutual funds and ETFs.
First Trust Dorsey Wright Focus 5 offers easy way into a popular sector rotation strategy.
