Stomach-turning global volatility has bolstered demand for certain alternative exchange-traded products used by institutions to hedge their portfolios or make directional bets quickly in order to profit from market instability
Reynolds Blue Chip Growth returned nearly 40% over the past year; only $260M in assets
First net inflows into equity funds in four months; the price is right
If last week's volatility was a test, go-anywhere funds passed.
Money-market mutual funds took in $24.9 billion yesterday, bouncing back from their second-worst week of withdrawals, as investors unsettled by the debate over raising the U.S. debt ceiling returned to the market.
Ibbotson Associates Inc. looked at 21 major target date fund families and found that a target date fund's asset allocation generally becomes more conservative as employees age.
Thanks to the exchange-traded fund industry, hedging stock market volatility — or betting on it — has never been easier
Cern Basher won't even consider mutual funds if the portfolio managers don't have their own money invested in them, and he doesn't want to see merely a few hundred dollars in there
Famed fund managers heavily invested in financials; right now, not so good
U.S. exchange-traded funds took in $56.3 billion for the first half of this year, an increase of more than 50.9% from the first half of 2010, according to State Street Global Advisors' mid-year SPDR outlook.
As exchange-traded funds grow in popularity, more financial advisers are using model ETF portfolios as a low-cost way of managing their clients' money
Global equities funds saw $3.5 in net outflows
After waiting for months and in some cases years, fund companies are starting to see progress on their applications to launch actively managed exchange-traded funds, according to several fund executives
Massachusetts' top securities regulator is suing RBC Capital Markets LLC and one of its former registered representatives over the sale of leveraged exchange-traded funds, saying they sold them to clients who didn't understand how the investments worked.
Addressing an issue that many thought had been resolved several years ago, Massachusetts last week filed an administrative complaint against RBC Capital Markets LLC and one of its former brokers, Michael Zukowski, for “dishonest practices in selling leveraged and inverse leveraged ETFs"
