Financial advisers are keeping a close eye on The Vanguard Group Inc.'s new Standard & Poor's 500 ETF to see how the exchange-traded fund performs and whether it can compete with State Street Global Advisors Inc.'s SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY).
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s move into active ETF management with the acquisition of Windward Investment Management Inc., which was announced today, didn't come as a surprise to advisers, who gave it high marks.
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s move into active ETF management with the acquisition of Windward Investment Management Inc. last week didn't come as much of a shock to advisers, who gave the firm high marks.
BlackRock Inc. is seeking regulatory clearance to create exchange-traded funds that can bet against stocks or bonds, as the $826 billion industry's largest player seeks new products to boost revenue.
Trademark lawsuit could make it harder to pick meaningful abbreviations; 'rush for good ticker symbols' coming?
Discount broker ups the ante after offering commission-free trades online seven months ago
Russell Investments moved a step closer to becoming an exchange-traded-fund provider yesterday when it announced that it has appointed James Polisson managing director of its global ETF business and Andrew Arenberg managing director of global ETF distribution.
A London-based provider of exchange-traded funds is planning to launch 18 commodities-based ETFs and a precious-metals basket ETF.
Tool will help ETF providers to focus their marketing and educational materials on the needs of advisers.
Grail Advisors, Claymore Securities bag several smaller funds; more firms to follow suit?
Vanguard said Thursday it will expand its index investment offerings with 19 new mutual funds, each with an exchange-traded fund version holding the same stocks or bonds as the companion mutual fund.
The three firm companies join the growing number of firms looking to get into the active ETF area.
As regulators and stock exchanges try to figure out what caused the 1,000-point stock market drop May 6, exchange-traded-fund providers are doing damage control.
As regulators and stock exchange officials discuss putting rules in place to make sure that the market volatility of May 6 never happens again, exchange-traded-fund providers are making sure considerations are made for their offerings
Nuveen hopes this type of arrangement is just the first of many as it hopes to subadvise more muni bond ETFs
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC today launched nine small-cap-sector exchange-traded funds, but that's going to be the last new offerings the firm rolls out for a while.
Mike Latham has been named global head of BlackRock's iShares exchange-traded-fund business, a new position, confirmed spokeswoman Bobbie Collins.
The concept of offering faith-based exchange-traded funds is novel, but the offerings available to prospective investors barely differentiate themselves from one another — and are often too expensive — according to a new report from Standard & Poor's.
The Charles Schwab Corp.'s effort to drum up business in its newly launched stable of exchange-traded funds by waiving commissions for its clients continues to draw intense interest from its competitors and advisers. At two separate conferences Wednesday, questions were raised about Schwab's ground-breaking decision with various levels of concern.
The Charles Schwab Corp. last week announced the launch of six managed portfolios of exchange-traded funds available through a fee-based portfolio advisory program.
