State Street

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  Schwab ETF Study: Cost Is King

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  October 8, 2012

  While the Schwab ETF survey results show that cost is king, investor education is lagging.

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  Top 10 Biggest ETF Sponsors

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 4, 2012

  As the Morningstar ETF Invest conference rolled along, a Cerulli report listed the biggest ETFs and also showed that new entrants into the market had a tough slog.

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  Currency Manager Axel Merk Talks Money as Inflation Hedge

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  October 2, 2012

  “It’s still an asset class investors are not sufficiently looking at,” says Merk, president and CIO of Merck Investments.

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  Vanguard to Switch Indexes on 22 Funds

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  October 2, 2012

  The new benchmarks, to take effect in 2013, will impact more than $530 billion in client assets.

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  New Hire Roundup: Mehra Goes to Salient; New CFA Institute Head

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 26, 2012

  This week in new hires, Dr. Ajay Mehra joined Salient Partners; Alan Meder was named chairman of the board of governors at CFA Institute; and Yuri Khalif went to Hatteras Funds.

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  Top Portfolio Products: BlackRock to Cut ETF Fees

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 14, 2012

  New products introduced over the last week include a series of geographic exposure indexes from Russell, a strategic dividend income fund from Advantus and an ETF from AdvisorShares.

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  July ETF Inflows Top $16 Billion

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  August 7, 2012

  The top 10 fund families collected nearly 90% of total exchange-traded fund inflows.

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  Savvy Advisors Are Turning to ETFs

  By Allen Williamson  |  August 7, 2012

  The latest AdvisorBenchmaking report found that 54% of advisors are likely to increase their use of ETFs in the near future.

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  Advisors’ 6 Favorite ETF Providers

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 24, 2012

  Cogent’s annual Advisor Brandscape report found that Vanguard has now become advisors’ favorite, while iShares slipped from the top spot.

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  No Jargon, Please: Think 401(k) Investors Know What ‘Fund’ Means? Think Again

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  July 19, 2012

  Plain English, it turns out, is the key to getting employees to save more for retirement, says a survey of retirement plan participants released by State Street Global Advisors.