Gus Sauter

• Morningstar '07 Confab Draws Crowd of 1,500

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  August 1, 2007

  Fund managers speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference 2007 -- held June 27-29 in Chicago -- say this year is a time to watch out...

• Bond iShares Get Competitive

  By Staff Writer  |  June 1, 2007

  Over the past several years Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has been the lone provider of U.S.-listed bond ETFs, but now they've got company. In April, the...

• Is Broader Better?

  By James Picerno  |  March 1, 2007

  ETF launches have become routine in the 21st century, especially when it comes to targeting ever narrower slices of the capital markets. But two new...

• Vanguard Registers Four Bond ETFs

  By Kara P. Stapleton  |  January 25, 2007

  Vanguard has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer exchange-traded shares for four existing bond index funds: Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund, Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond Index Fund, and Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund. The four bond ETFs will be...

• Dividends, Sub Sectors and Equal Weights Added

  By Staff Writer  |  July 1, 2006

  In April, First Trust Advisors and the Nasdaq Stock Market announced the launch of two ETFs: an equal weight version of the Nasdaq-100 (QQEW) and...

• Vanguard Changes Benchmark for Extended Market Index Fund

  By Staff Writer  |  May 4, 2005

  May 3, 2005 -- Vanguard Group said it is changing the benchmark for its $9 billion Vanguard Extended Market Index/Inv (VEXMX), replacing the Dow Jones...

• Vanguard Adds Manager to Four Funds

  By Staff Writer  |  June 16, 2003

  June 16, 2003 -- A Vanguard principal who has been responsible for finding and evaluating outside managers for its mutual funds has been appointed to...

• Vanguard Targets Arbitrage in International Funds

  By Staff Writer  |  April 29, 2003

  April 25, 2003 -- Vanguard Group will add redemption fees to some of its international stock funds in June in an effort to discourage investors...

• Shareholders Okay Vanguard Indexing Proposal

  By Staff Writer  |  December 9, 2002

  Dec. 3, 2002 -- Vanguard Group said shareholders approved a proposal making it easier for eight of its stock index funds to change the benchmarks...

• Growing Pains

  By Staff Writer  |  March 1, 2000

  The debate from the Super Bowl of Indexing: It's a