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Why are more advisers seeking managed ETF portfolios?
ETFS JUL 14, 2015
Why are more advisers seeking managed ETF portfolios?

Advisers using managed ETF portfolios to take advantage of inherent ETF efficiencies, manage risk in a way that has never been done before.

By Jeff Montgomery
BlackRock warns of stock-bond correlation, suggests illiquid real estate
EQUITIES JUL 14, 2015
BlackRock warns of stock-bond correlation, suggests illiquid real estate

Chief investment strategist says liquid investments are being challenged to offer competitive returns.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
China's stock market meltdown is looking like a buying opportunity
EQUITIES JUL 14, 2015
China's stock market meltdown is looking like a buying opportunity

Strategists recommend a slow and steady move into the world's second-largest equity market.

By Jeff Benjamin
ETFS JUL 14, 2015
Merrill Lynch adds social impact portfolios to platform

Client demand leads wirehouse to create multi-asset vehicles that reflect investors' values

By Liz Skinner
ETFS JUL 13, 2015
Vanguard Group hires a smart beta expert from pioneer Research Affiliates

Index investing giant has challenged the marketing of smart beta funds. Now it's turning to someone whose research has helped those funds grow.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
Advisers choosing hedge-style stock-pickers face 'beta' challenge
EQUITIES JUL 13, 2015
Advisers choosing hedge-style stock-pickers face 'beta' challenge

Closet indexing, market timing are among the risks in long-short equity: analysts.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
Active or passive? It depends where you work
ETFS JUL 13, 2015
Active or passive? It depends where you work

Over the past two years, confidence in passive investing has grown mainly among RIAs while other advisers primarily remain active.

By Ellie Zhu
Jeffrey Gundlach is riding out the Greek storm in Treasuries
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 13, 2015
Jeffrey Gundlach is riding out the Greek storm in Treasuries

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Jeffrey Gundlach has been bracing for trouble in Greece and Puerto Rico by loading up on Treasuries and Ginnie Maes.

By Jeff Benjamin
Dan Fuss' Loomis Sayles Bond Fund underperfoms, hit by dollar's rise
EQUITIES JUL 09, 2015
Dan Fuss' Loomis Sayles Bond Fund underperfoms, hit by dollar's rise

Investors stick with $22.6 billion fund as famed manager calls reason for negative returns temporary phenomenon.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
China does everything wrong in efforts to reverse stock market slide
EMERGING MARKETS JUL 08, 2015
China does everything wrong in efforts to reverse stock market slide

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: China gets low marks for how it's trying to save its equity markets by preventing the sale of stocks.

By Jeff Benjamin
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 08, 2015
Wells Fargo faces major test of broker liability for selling F-Squared

A 68-year-old widower claims wirehouse did insufficient due diligence on the troubled money manager.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
ALTERNATIVES JUL 08, 2015
Vanguard, Goldman Sachs agree that advisers face tall order in picking alts fund managers

Diametrically opposed firms find common ground on importance of manager selection, differ on value of hedge funds.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
Can active managers beat dart-throwing monkeys?
MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 07, 2015
Can active managers beat dart-throwing monkeys?

Professors offer an interesting take on the age-old question. Sorry, monkeys.

By Bloomberg
Banks are cutting broker-dealer units from their 'living wills'
EQUITIES JUL 07, 2015
Banks are cutting broker-dealer units from their 'living wills'

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The nation's biggest banks, like JPMorgan Chase, are lumping their broker-dealer units in with other 'non-essential' operations.

By Jeff Benjamin
China stock plunge reignites debate over when and whether U.S. investors should get in
EQUITIES JUL 07, 2015
China stock plunge reignites debate over when and whether U.S. investors should get in

Not having access to the market has been protecting mutual-fund investors from fast declines.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
Vanguard's new ambassador to advisers: We've earned your trust
ETFS JUL 07, 2015
Vanguard's new ambassador to advisers: We've earned your trust

Thomas M. Rampulla's return to the U.S. comes after the firm recast itself as a patron of an industry that once saw it as a threat.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
Treasury ETF attracts big bucks as investors seek safety amid Greek crisis
EMERGING MARKETS JUL 06, 2015
Treasury ETF attracts big bucks as investors seek safety amid Greek crisis

ETF holds up better than other funds that own riskier, lower-rated debt, which had their worst monthly outflows ever.

By Bloomberg
As Puerto Rico crisis intensifies, mutual fund investors face loss of capital
MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 06, 2015
As Puerto Rico crisis intensifies, mutual fund investors face loss of capital

If the island can't pay back all of its debts, some fund holders could suffer haircuts.

By Trevor Hunnicutt
Morningstar unveils active vs. passive performance comparison tool
MUTUAL FUNDS JUL 02, 2015
Morningstar unveils active vs. passive performance comparison tool

At its annual conference, Morningstar rolls out the Active/Passive Barometer, a tool that compares the performance of actively managed mutual funds net of fees to comparable passive products.

By Jeff Benjamin
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUN 30, 2015
Top bond manager overseeing billions at J.P. Morgan takes leave

Douglas S. Swanson will step aside, starting Oct. 1.

By Trevor Hunnicutt