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JPMorgan kicking off $9 billion of mutual fund-to-ETF switches

It’s the first of four planned conversions by the firm that will shift around $9 billion of assets into exchange-traded funds by mid-June.

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Neuberger Berman joins Wall Street ETF rush with thematic funds

The three new funds were created in response to clients who wanted access to the firm’s strategies via ETFs, says Neuberger CIO Hari Ramanan.

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Finra bars ex-Cetera rep who used clients’ money for own family’s investments

The broker, Marianne O'Shee Smith, a 34-year veteran of the securities industry, used $45,100 she had received from three customers, all senior citizens.

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Betting against Bitcoin may get easier with futures ETF filing

ProShares wants to launch an exchange-traded fund that would track the inverse performance of an index of Bitcoin futures.

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State Street launches active muni ESG fund

The exchange-traded fund is sub-advised by Nuveen Asset Management, a unit of TIAA.

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Thematic fund taps into rising interest rates

Designed to go up in value when rates rise, the FolioBeyond Rising Rates ETF is well suited to the current environment.

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Manning & Napier goes private, sells at 41% premium to Callodine

The 52-year-old asset manager with nearly $20 billion under management will become a subsidiary of Callodine Group.

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American Century’s Avantis adds ESG ETFs

The Avantis Responsible U.S. Equity, International Equity and Emerging Markets ETFs join Avantis’ current line of 11 exchange-traded ETFs.

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BlackRock cuts fees on biggest bond ETF, takes ax to expenses on two stock ETFs

Issuer reduces the expense ratio on the $85 billion iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF to 0.03% from 0.04%.

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Net contributions to target-date funds topped $170 billion in 2021

Roughly 86% of last year's net inflows went into collective investment trusts, which now hold 45% of total TDF assets.

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Exclusive: Morgan Stanley lays out plans to enter the ETF market

The $1.5 trillion investment manager is designing a full-scale ETF platform, and plans to launch its first ETFs this year.

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Pennsylvania RIA loses to SEC in 12b-1 fee trial

According to the SEC, Ambassador Advisors generated at least $777,000 in fees by investing in 12b-1 share classes when other share classes were available for the same mutual fund.

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Mom and pop buying fewer muni bonds directly

Instead, retail investors are moving toward buying mutual funds and ETFs, which have roughly doubled their holdings of municipal securities over the last decade.

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J.P. Morgan adds retirement spending tool to target-date funds

The tool will help participants in the firm's SmartRetirement funds withdraw a portion of the money they have invested each year after they retire.

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Financial advisers starting to view economic outlook as a glass half empty

The results from the most recent InvestmentNews survey shows sentiment is turning south.

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Suit against Vanguard focuses on big tax bills for target-date funds

Vanguard was forced to sell as much as 15% of the assets in retail target-date funds, resulting in substantial capital gains taxes for investors who held the funds in taxable accounts, the lawsuit asserts.

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Largest China tech ETF in U.S. wipes out nine years of gains

KraneShares CSI China Internet Fund slumped more than 11% Monday, bringing its decline over the past three days to 28%.

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Gundlach’s DoubleLine gets SEC green light to launch its first ETFs

The firm's applications related to the DoubleLine Opportunistic Bond ETF and the DoubleLine Shiller CAPE U.S. Equities ETF have been granted 'effective immediately.'

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ETFs find a crisis they can’t trade through in Ukraine

Every ETF focused on Russian stocks will soon be suspended, a kind of shutdown that never resulted from previous events like the Arab Spring or even Covid.

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Finra seeks comments on possible changes to oversight of complex products

The regulator is assessing the risks that may arise when retail investors purchase complicated investments without the help of a financial adviser.