<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Bank ETFs ride the choppy waves of Yellen-speak. Plus: Still waiting for Treasury yields to spike, new love for intermediate-term bond funds, hot stocks ahead of earnings reports, and even gold bugs are starting to worry about the precious metal's decline
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Markets wake up to China's economic slowdown. Plus: Soros deters British EU exit, an all-ETF retirement portfolio, rethinking cash-rich tech companies, undervalued Wall Street banks, and test your investor profile (for fun).
Money is flooding into exchange-traded funds focused on health care at the fastest rate in at least six years, driven by booming biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors bringing new products to market.
ETF firm launches five funds to offer pure-play exposure to Japanese companies.
Acquisition could put the fund tracker in the lead of the portfolio accounting and reporting business.
Pacific Investment Management Co., the envy of the bond world when it tripled assets following the financial crisis, is finding itself in an unusual role: Playing catch up to competitors in the growing market for exchange- traded funds.
The fund, previously known as the Pimco Mortgage-Backed Securities Fund, will become the TCW Core Plus Bond Fund, according to a statement today from Los Angeles-based TCW.
In a Take Five interview, Morningstar CEO Joe Mansueto says the firm has a big opportunity with its ByAllAccounts acquisition to go beyond advisers and is also well-positioned in liquid alts space.
Gains access to more than 2,100 clients, including independent financial advisers, asset managers, wealth managers, trust companies and broker-dealers.
After visiting Pimco, analysts at Morningstar may downgrade their ratings for the money manager's funds. In a new report, they cited, among other things, a 'higher degree of uncertainty' around personnel in the wake of the departure of co-CIO Mohamed El-Erian.
New American Funds offering seeks to take advantage of strong payouts but some doubt strategy.
The Vanguard Group Inc., the third-largest U.S. provider of exchange-traded funds, has asked regulators for permission to open actively managed ETFs.
Index funds became popular over the last four decades because they're simple, conservative and low cost. A different kind of exchange-traded fund is drawing record cash by promoting better returns with the same stocks.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether currency traders at the world's biggest banks distorted prices for options and exchange- traded funds by rigging benchmark foreign-exchange rates, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Rule proposal would touch on active vs. index funds, transparency, flexibility and inverse leverage
Small-cap stocks have been going gangbusters, but market analysts say it's time for those companies to start earning their keep.
BlackRock Inc. hired JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Christopher Jones as chief investment officer for stocks in the Americas as the world's biggest money manager seeks to bolster its active equity business.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> How the Russia situation could hit the economy. Plus: JPMorgan abandons its commodities business, Morningstar's deep dive into the Pimco mess, expect the expected from Yellen today, retirees give Boomers the playbook, and, big surprise, short-sellers badmouth stocks.
Despite the popularity of passive strategies, shrewd stock pickers may soon have their day, Jeff Benjamin reports.
Buttoned-down money manager Dodge & Cox says it has no plans to change the way it invests.
