Featured News
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Concidence? Big ETF News Accompanies Big ETF Conference
The week has brought launches of ETPs on the Singapore dollar, BDCs and infrastructure, along with Schwab’s commission-free platform.
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FINRA Warning on BDCs Doesn’t Stop Market Vectors’ ETF Debut
Despite FINRA's January warnings on high-risk business development companies, Market Vectors has launched the first-ever ETF to offer pure-play BDC exposure.
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ETFs and 401(k)s: The Romance Begins
ETFs have grown enormously over the past 20 years, 401(k) plans have grown over an even longer period, and yet the twain have hardly met. That's about to change.
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Daily Changes to ETF Premiums Can Be Predicted in Advance: Morningstar
New Morningstar research offers insight—and investment opportunity—based on the way ETF premiums and discounts behave.
Live Blogs
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Searching for Yield? New ETF Taps U.S. Infrastructure
Yorkville, one of the smaller players in the ETF space, filled a niche that some believe has been neglected: U.S. infrastructure.
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Frank Talk With Vanguard’s Advisory Chief
Martha King explains how the firm reaches out to advisors—and when it doesn't—and speaks frankly about competition with Schwab, frustration with index providers and more.
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ETF Addicts to Get Fill at Year’s Biggest Event
The world’s largest gathering of advisors, investors and service providers focused on exchange-traded products opens Sunday in sunny Florida where the temperatures should be about 80 degrees but where discussions of “hot” relate strictly to investments.
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Event Spotlight
Retirement Income Symposium
October 10-11, 2013
Hyatt Regency, Boston, MA
The symposium provides practical, innovative solutions to current industry challenges and provides advisors clear, actionable strategies that they can utilize to address their clients' needs.
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Featured Commentary
Are Equity Investors Too Complacent?
By Ron DeLegge, ETFguide.com | February 3, 2013
Stock volatility is low, which can be a harbinger of market woes to come.
How’d I Do? 2012 Performance of My Top Mutual Funds and ETFs
By Mike Patton | January 21, 2013
Using my Fiduciary Scorecard tool, I assess how well my chosen mutual funds and ETFs performed last year in their peer groups.