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Fund industry’s ETN challenge may backfire
The mutual fund industry's push for raising taxes on exchange-traded notes may come back to hurt the industry when it asks Congress to defer taxes on mutual funds, the ranking minority member of a House Ways and Means subcommittee said.
Morningstar charts course for growth
Despite a sinking stock market, investment research firm Morningstar Inc. is mapping plans to increase its product lineup in 2008.
Rivalry in ETN market is heating up
Financial advisers are glad to see that competition is heating up in the nascent exchange traded note market.
Top re-balancing-software vendors duke it out for new customers
Competition is heating up in the normally sedate world of portfolio-re-balancing software.
SEC rule change would eliminate exemptive orders for ETFs
Investors will be the ultimate winners if a Securities and Ex-change Commission proposal to permit exchange traded funds to operate without having to obtain individual exemptive orders becomes a reality.
New E*Trade CEO vows he won’t sell
Donald Layton dispelled rumors that he plans to sell or break up the struggling online brokerage company.
Donald H. Layton named E*Trade CEO
Mr. Layton helped secure the $2.5 billion cash infusion that shored up the online broker’s finances.
Attracting assets eludes ETFs based on fundamental indexes
Exchange traded funds that are based on fundamental indexes have ballooned in number, but they are having a hard time attracting assets.
William McNabb III
Financial advisers know little of William McNabb III, who today replaces John J. Brennan as president of The Vanguard Group Inc. and who will be taking Mr. Brennan's position of chief executive in about a year.
Actively managed ETFs close to reality
The push for actively managed exchange traded funds, the Holy Grail of the ETF industry, is intensifying.
Will active ETFs lure investors?
Exchange traded funds are one of the fastest-growing investment vehicles, but until now, they have been passive investments.
Top re-balancing software vendors duke it out for new customers
Competition is heating up in the normally sedate world of portfolio re-balancing software.
Vanguard lowers fees on five ETFs as it chases Barclays
The Vanguard Group Inc. has slashed costs on five more exchange traded funds in its latest effort to play catch-up with Barclays Global Advisors.
Revenue weighting is the latest wrinkle in ETFs
RevenueShares Investor Services LLC became the latest firm to enter the exchange traded fund market Friday, launching three ETFs based on indexes weighted by the amount of company revenue.
Envestnet to unveil socially conscious platform
A platform will be launched next month offering what is being touted as the first socially conscious and sustainable-investing account in the financial services industry.
TD Ameritrade boasts of winning stats on trade execution
Despite its many setbacks in 2007, TD Ameritrade Institutional has one measurable edge over bigger rivals — better trade execution, according to its executives.
More ETF liquidations likely to follow Claymore’s
When Claymore Securities Inc. of Lisle, Ill., this month announced that it was liquidating 11 exchange traded funds — the first large-scale liquidation of ETFs since the funds were created — some industry experts said investors should view it as a warning.
TD Ameritrade may buckle on pricing for Fiserv advisers
TD Ameritrade Institutional may cave in to demands by financial advisers whose accounts it acquired from Fiserv Inc. that it keep that company's pricing program.
TD Ameritrade execs apologize to advisers
Executives at TD Ameritrade Institutional last week spent much of their time apologizing to the 1,000 financial advisers who attended its Partnership 2008 conference.
E*Trade to cast off part of wealth unit
The firm will sell most of its RAA Wealth Management unit to PHH Investments, in an effort to strengthen its balance sheet.
