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Registered Rep. October 1, 2012 Diana Britton |
A Package Deal Most advisors would say they want to do what's best for their clients. But if that's the case, they better not manage their clients' money on their own; better leave that to the home office, new research from Cerulli Associates shows.  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2012 Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: Could Pimco's New Active ETF Turn Advisor Heads? Could the new PIMCO fund be the bellwether active ETFs need to gain traction among advisors?  |
Registered Rep. March 12, 2012 Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: Are Investors Starting to Wake up and Smell the Rally? For months, we've been scratching our heads over why retail investors have been fleeing U.S. equity mutual funds and flocking to bond funds and U.S. Treasuries, where yields are practically non-existent.  |
Registered Rep. August 27, 2012 Stan Luxenberg |
Bill Gross' New Trick PIMCO's Total Return ETF has proven the skeptics wrong and outperformed the flagship fund that shares its strategy.  |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
ETF Education The industry has fallen short in informing investors about exchange-traded funds, according to a Rydex survey of 500 mutual fund investors.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2012 Dave Lindorff |
Is It True Bonds Have More Fun? A multi-year shift by investors out of equity mutual funds and into equity exchange-traded funds is now broadening to include fixed income, too, as investors seek lower fees as well as the relative ease of shifting asset allocations afforded by ETFs.  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 |
Fun Days for Funds No Kidding The market may have been flat for much of 2004, but it didn't affect investors' enthusiasm for mutual funds.  |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2011 Diana Britton |
Retail Investors Still Risk Averse, Pull Money Out of Equity Mutual Funds Despite an opportunity to buy stocks on the cheap, retail investors still have a risk-averse bias, according to recent fund flows.  |
Financial Advisor December 2011 Marla Brill |
Still Ahead ETF assets have more than quadrupled since 2004, but mutual funds are still favored by advisors.  |
Financial Advisor April 2010 Marla Brill |
A Good Complement More advisors think both bond mutual funds and ETFs belong in client portfolios.  |
Investment Advisor April 2007 Robert F. Keane |
Morningstar--S&P Deal Morningstar and Standard and Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced the completion of a deal for Morningstar to acquire Standard and Poor's mutual fund data business for $55 million in cash.  |
Registered Rep. June 25, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Vanguard Broadens ETF Platform The company that made its reputation with low-cost indexed investments said it will launch 19 new index funds and related ETFs over the next year, as well as an ETF that tracks its $91 billion Vanguard 500 Index Fund.  |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Investing on Faith Fees and performance may be at the top of the list of mutual fund characteristics investors look for, but don't count out faith.  |
The Motley Fool January 19, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
The Hottest Trillion-Dollar Investment Read these tips before jumping into the popular world of exchange-traded funds.  |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2005 |
Don't Buy the Dividend! There's a bad time to buy into mutual funds.  |
Financial Planning July 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Down But Not Out For mutual funds, 2008 was the year of the ebb tide: Long-term funds saw net outflows of $226 billion. The carnage continued in the first quarter of 2009, when an additional $43 billion flowed out of equity funds.  |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Jeff Joseph |
Hedgeworld Hedge Fund Focus: Full Speed Ahead for Hedge Funds SEC regulation, demand for additional transparency, and tales of occasional fraud are but speed bumps on a trajectory that could see hedge fund assets quadruple by the end of the decade.  |
Financial Planning August 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Adviser Pulse: Funds, Funds, Funds In 1992, advisers had 3,261 mutual funds to choose from. Today there are 16,580. Here's what financial advisers need to consider when choosing an asset manager.  |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2010 Nathan Alderman |
What the Fool Is an ETF? What is an ETF? An ETF, short for "exchange-traded fund," is a mutual-fund-like basket of investments that trades like a stock. Though a few ETFs are actively managed, most simply track some sort of index. ETFs have five main benefits.  |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Mike Patton |
Tactical Versus Strategic In strategic asset allocation, long-term capital expectations are integrated with a client's goals and a target allocation is established. With tactical asset allocation, adjustments are made based on short-term expectations for an asset class.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2013 Craig L. Israelsen |
Mutual Funds vs. ETFs: Which Performance Better? When a portfolio of mutual funds vies against a portfolio of ETFs, which one comes out on top?  |
Investment Advisor October 2009 |
The Soapbox: What You Need to Know About Hedge Fund Conversions Not all hedge funds can be seamlessly converted into mutual funds.  |
The Motley Fool May 3, 2011 Amanda B. Kish |
Why Advisors Can't Pick the Right Investments Don't count on advisors to make the right choices on ETFs and mutual funds.  |
Investment Advisor November 2007 |
Upgrades iShares S&P California Municipal Bond and New York Municipal Bond funds from Barclays begin trading... Morningstar releases new Stewardship Grades for more than 1,000 mutual funds... Rydex launches ETF Essentials... etc.  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
10 Trillion Reasons to Invest Mutual funds keep raking in the money.  |
Registered Rep. January 26, 2011 Diana Britton |
Pimco Moves Into New Territory, Again Pimco is launching a new fund line in equities. The bond fund giant tried to make the same move a decade ago -- and failed. Will it succeed this time?  |
Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 Kristen French |
More Advisors Wearing Investment Management Hat Financial advisors at broker/dealers are increasingly taking the reins on their clients' fee-based accounts, according to a report out from Cerulli Associates today.  |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2004 |
Beating the Market Can an actively managed mutual fund consistently post market-beating returns?  |
Investment Advisor May 2009 |
Upgrades New financial offerings: Payden & Rygel introduces Payden Corporate Bond Fund... ING launches INGCompareMe.com... SPDR Barclays Capital Convertible Bond ETF begins trading on the NYSE... and more...  |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
An ETF Strategy To Save You Money A favorite mutual fund might have a matching ETF -- with lower expenses.  |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Some Mutual Funds Win in Tax Game It's true, on average, that exchange-traded funds and separate accounts have tax advantages over mutual funds. But advisors shouldn't dismiss mutual funds too quickly.  |
The Motley Fool August 6, 2010 Amanda B. Kish |
Must-Read Mutual Fund News The week in mutual funds and how to profit from it.  |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Morningstar Gets Brighter Financial research specialist Morningstar intends to buy Ibbotson Associates. Investors, take note.  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 |
International Flight Over the last three years, foreign mutual funds have posted annual returns twice those notched by the S&P 500, prompting investors to dump shares of U.S. stock funds and park that cash overseas in search of fatter returns.  |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Vaughan Scully |
ETF Advisor: ETFs for Cash Over the past year, ETFs holding money market securities -- Treasury, municipal, and corporate bonds that mature in less than a year -- have sprung up to give investors a "cash-equivalent" ETF option.  |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Michelle Knight |
Rethinking Bond ETFs Most investors buy bond ETFs at a premium and sell at a discount, a dynamic that is an undeniable black mark on fixed-income ETFs.  |
Investment Advisor March 2007 Robert F. Keane |
Catching up with... Tim Meyer To get a handle on what's happening in the world of ETFs -- where assets grew 40% in 2006 to $422 billion -- here is an interview with the ETF business manager for Rydex Investments.  |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2006 |
On Funds and Meetings If you hold shares through a mutual fund, can you attend annual company meetings?  |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Buy This New Investment Wait to see how active ETFs do before you jump in.  |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Bill Barker |
Today's Strong Buys: International Edition A lot of people will give you one piece of advice on breaking into international markets. They'll be wrong. Read on to see what our advice is.  |
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Bookshelf Dump all your retail mutual funds! That's the message that Ric Edelman shouts in his book, The Lies About Money.  |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
Old Mutual Spreads Its Wings It remains to be seen if Old Mutual's plans for growth will make this firm's funds worth owning, but one fund, Old Mutual Focused Fund, is already worth a look.  |
Financial Planning February 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
More Money in Motion During the financial crisis, the majority of high-net-worth clients maintained accounts with at least two financial advisors, Boston-based Cerulli Associates said in a January report.  |
The Motley Fool September 28, 2007 Amanda B. Kish |
The Key to Successful Mutual Fund Investing Mutual fund expenses may be one of the best ways to tell whether a fund will outperform or not.  |
The Motley Fool October 4, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Watch Out for These Costly Investments High costs can make ETFs look bad.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2012 Joseph Lisanti |
Fight Night: ETFs vs. Open-End Funds Traditional mutual funds and ETFs may seem like competitors in a fight to the death. But the truth is, the two products coexist in most portfolios.  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Donna Mitchell |
ETFs Activated A new white paper examines the performance of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from 1998 to 2008, and provides insight into what is ahead for ETFs.  |
Investment Advisor June 2009 James J. Green |
Numerology: Fund Flows Bounce Back Independent and regional broker/dealers, along with RIAs, will account for the majority of mutual fund net sales by the year 2013.  |
Bank Technology News June 2007 John Adams |
Marketing: Targeting Women is Tricky; Better to Gauge Abilities New research says mutual funds are inept when marketing to women via the Internet. The lesson: what counts is investor sophistication, not gender.  |
Financial Planning July 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad |
5 Questions The founder of IPOX Schuster speaks about the exploding ETF market.  |