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What You Should Know About Tomorrow's Bank Earnings Deluge
Thursday, July 13, 2017 - 4:05pm | 878Read More...The second-quarter reporting season is upon us. Overall, expectations concerning the quarter are upbeat. Financials, being early reporters, will be prevalent Friday, with a slew of earnings scheduled to report throughout the day. Q2 Reporting Season: A Preview Factset expects the blended earnings...
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Demand For Bond ETFs Seen As A Positive
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 3:52pm | 535Read More...Fixed income is one of the hottest corners of the exchange-traded funds industry this year, a trend some market observers believe will continue, particularly as professional investors look for more liquid alternatives to individual bonds. Bond ETFs “While bonds do not trade on an exchange,...
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Inside BlackRock's ETF Fee Cuts
Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 2:06pm | 689Read More...On Wednesday, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest asset manager, made waves in the exchange-traded funds industry by announcing lower fees for 15 of its iShares core ETFs. With that news, it can legitimately be said that iShares, the world's largest ETF issuer, is taking the...
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Evaluating A High-Flying Emerging Markets ETF
Friday, September 30, 2016 - 9:37am | 627Read More...After several years of being over-laggards, emerging markets assets are finally delivering for investors. And, the resurgence of developing world debt is a big reason why. In fact, emerging markets fixed income exchange-traded funds are performing on par with their equity-based counterparts while...
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Assessing Demand For Energy ETFs
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 8:11am | 573Read More...The Energy Select Sector SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLE) is this year's best performer among the sector SPDR exchange-traded funds. XLE, the largest equity-based energy ETF by assets, is higher by 18.7 percent, an advantage of about 560 basis points over its technology and utilities counterparts. XLE...
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Evaluating A Pair Of Multi-Factor ETFs
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 1:15pm | 603Read More...Multi-factor exchange-traded funds are an increasingly popular segment of the broader ETF landscape. Perhaps part of the reason why investors are embracing these ETFs is that timing individual investment factors, such as low volatility, momentum and value, is difficult. Multi-factor ETFs offer...
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Small-Cap ETFs Top Active Rivals
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 9:52am | 544Read More...Actively managed funds are under considerable pressure, much of it coming courtesy of lower-cost, passively managed exchange-traded funds. However, active's advocates, of whom there remain plenty, believe there are asset classes and market segments where active management works for investors....
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Previewing Fidelity's Upcoming Low Volatility ETF
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 - 2:44pm | 596Read More...Later this week, fund giant Fidelity makes its initial foray into the fast-growing world of smart exchange-traded funds. Boston-based Fidelity is expected to launch six smart beta ETFs on Thursday September 15, one of which will be a low volatility offering known as the Fidelity Low Volatility...
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Rate Hike Bets Spurred August Inflows To Financial ETFs
Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 8:35am | 581Read More...Fed fund futures now say traders are paring bets that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this month; but in August, inflows to financial services exchange-traded funds indicated otherwise. Financial services, the S&P 500's second-largest sector allocation behind technology...
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Mid-Cap Exposure On The Cheap
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 8:56am | 465Read More...U.S. stocks are once again flirting with record highs, and while large caps remain investors' preferred destination, well-documented has been the out-performance offered by mid caps this year. There are scores of exchange-traded funds offering investors to this cap spectrum, plenty of which are...
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It's Not Easy Being A New ETF
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 9:33am | 579Read More...Since the end of August 2015, nearly 220 exchange-traded funds have come to market. Some industry observers believe that number is too high. Just How Many? They might have a point. Year-to-date, more than 70 ETFs have officially closed, and a recent string of announced closures will take that...
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Passive Approach Can Serve Investors Well With Junk Bonds
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 - 8:34am | 558Read More...The iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (NYSE: HYG) and the SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bnd ETF (NYSE: JNK) are the two largest high-yield corporate bond exchange-traded funds by assets and are currently home to nearly $29 billion in combined assets under management. While that is an...
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Stick With Passive Mid-, Small-Cap ETFs Over Active Funds
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 - 2:12pm | 542Read More...There is a slew of data points suggesting that active management has some, to put it delicately, shortcomings. Those issues are particularly acute when drifting away from large caps to mid and small caps. “The March 2016 persistence scorecard, published last week, showed that just 19 percent...
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Insurance Companies Driving Institutional Use Of ETFs
Friday, August 5, 2016 - 8:45am | 581Read More...Earlier this year, the report, "Institutional Investment in ETFs: Versatility Fuels Growth" from Greenwich Associates, commissioned by BlackRock, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, said institutional investors were expected to continue increasing their use of ETFs....
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Go Corporate With This Bond ETF
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - 2:49pm | 591Read More...It is widely known that investors are flocking to fixed income exchange-traded funds this year. Two such funds are found among this year's top 10 asset-gathering ETFs, and one of those is the iShares iBoxx $ Invest Grade Corp Bd Fd (NYSE: LQD). LQD, Making A Splash Last month, it was revealed...
