Western & Southern Financial Group Inc.'s decision to base its variable annuity investment options on exchange-traded funds is a positive for the insurer, allowing it to better manage market risk tied to the products, according to Moody's Investors Service
Guggenheim Partners LLC, an investment firm founded by the famous family for which it is named, announced today it is acquiring Security Benefit Corp. — and with it Rydex SGI.
Active exchange-traded funds for the most part have been slow to take off
Executives at BlackRock Inc. and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC are calling on regulators to address suitability requirements for the sale of sophisticated ETFs, such as commodities-based and leveraged funds.
Index specialist carving out big piece of the action; 'investor favorability' cited
T. Rowe Price Group Inc. appears to be inching closer to launching its first actively managed exchange-traded fund — a fixed-income offering — and experts predict that it will be the first of many of its kind this year.
Cumberland Advisors, which manages $1.5 billion in separately managed accounts, has shifted its portfolio to 20% cash — the highest that it has been since early 2008, over fears related to the situation in Egypt
Executives at BlackRock Inc. and Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC are calling on regulators to address suitability requirements for the sale of sophisticated ETFs such as commodities-based and leveraged funds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether exchange-traded funds are being used to hide insider trading, a person with knowledge of the probe said.
Morningstar Inc. is developing ratings for advisers' exchange-traded-fund model portfolios, a first for the burgeoning industry.
Exchange-traded funds may be all the rage, but closures of ETFs are up 500% since 2007. Here are some warning signs that a fund may be headed for that great pooled asset in the sky.
With fund firms launching a seemingly endless parade of exchange-traded funds, a dark side to this glut of offerings is emerging: Portfolio liquidations, once rare, are becoming more common
Research firm aims to barge into the ratings biz for exchange-traded funds; rival doing some revising as well
The combined market value of U.S. exchange-traded funds surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in 2010, while ETFs investing in emerging markets and bonds receiving the most new money, Birinyi Associates Inc. said.
The Vanguard Group Inc. has edged out BlackRock Inc.'s iShares as advisers' most trusted exchange-traded fund provider, according to a survey released by Cogent Research.
While Americans in Egypt evacuate with help from the U.S. Embassy, financial advisers are considering whether investments in the embattled nation — and the rest of the Middle East — should follow.
Investors in hedge funds and limited partnerships are used to receiving these forms, which reflect an investor's proportionate share of a partnership's taxable income or loss
Affluent investors increasingly are turning to exchange-traded funds over mutual funds, and when it comes to their sentiments about the providers of those ETFs, clients rate The Vanguard Group Inc. above all others
