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International travel can be expensive, but thanks to exchange traded funds, investing in ex-U.S. markets can be downright cheap. In recent years, data confirm advisors and investors are apt to embrace the least expensive ETFs, namely those with annual fees of 0.20 percent or less. Plenty of...

The Benzinga Fintech Summit is a gathering of the top leaders in brokerage, payments and cryptocurrencies in San Francisco Nov. 14. Ahead of the Summit, Benzinga is profiling fintech thought leaders who are speaking at the event. For this installment, Benzinga interviewed a key speaker on our...

Investors love low-cost exchange traded funds. Fortunately, ETF fees are declining, giving frugal investors plenty of choices for accessing multiple asset classes. When it comes to cheap small-cap ETFs, the Schwab US Small-Cap ETF (NYSE: SCHA) is one of the cheapest. With an annual expense ratio of...

Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE: SCHW), one of the largest discount brokerage firms, said Monday it is expanding its Schwab ETF OneSource platform. Schwab ETF OneSource is already the largest commission-free exchange-traded funds offering in the brokerage space. Fifteen ETFs from nine different issuers...

The Volatility Index, also known as the "fear index," briefly traded below the 10 mark on Wednesday for less than one minute immediately following the Federal Reserve's announcement that interest rates will be maintained at current levels. Regardless of the very brief time it traded below 10, it...

Wall Street isn’t what it used to be. A photo tweeted recently by Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders encapsulates the downfall of the traditional Wall Street trading business. Sonders’ photo shows the massive UBS Group AG (USA) (NYSE: UBS) trading facility...

Featured stories this weekend in Barron's ponder the prospects for a Detroit automaker, a semiconductor giant and the inventor of Bubble Wrap. This issue also has a look at a jet propulsion company and a pair of small cap banks. Other articles discuss the state of the U.S. auto industry, the top...

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P) are the latest companies hoping that a blast from the past can kick-start their businesses. Both companies are struggling with generating profits, and both have recently named founders of the company to the CEO position in an effort to turn...

In an announcement made Tuesday, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, said it is paring the fees on seven of its core ETFs, bringing some of the annual expense ratios on those funds to as low as 0.03 percent per year. That works out to...

Recently, there has been a shift within the personal financial world nudging investors away from traditional advisors to digitalized guides. Robo-advisors, these new financial management services, minimize or entirely eliminate the human financial advisor aspect of asset managing. While robo-...