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Price war among online brokerages
When Charles Schwab cut its per trade fee to $8.95 in January, it seemed to many that others would be forced to respond. Fidelity this week said it would cut its online per trade fee to $7.95 per... Read more...
ETF assets soar
We noted recently that Goldman Sachs (GS) had decided to enter the exchange-traded fund fray in a pretty meaningful way. Goldman Sachs' first ETF will passively follow index tracking companies in... Read more...
Why is Goldman Sachs jumping into ETFs?
Goldman Sachs (GS) is not the Goldman Sachs of the exchange traded funds industry. That would be Barclays, which was bought by BlackRock. So some are scratching their heads as to why the real Goldman... Read more...
Hedge funds for the masses
IndexIQ garnered a lot of attention with its latest ETF launch, the IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage ETF. The firm is premised on the idea that ETFs and mutual funds can replicate various hedge fund... Read more...
Latest ETF reflects rising M&A market
The IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage ETF, from Index IQ in Rye, N.Y., has made its debut. The product is yet another ETF designed to mimic an institutional trading strategy. In this case, the ETF aims to give... Read more...
Who will buy Barclay's iShares?
It was news when Barclays decided to sell its iShares unit, a pioneer in the exchange-traded funds business, to raise sorely needed cash. It has attracted a star-studded list of would-be buyers, the... Read more...
Long-short funds really delivering?
The conventional wisdom at the moment is that long-short funds are in heavy demand. According to Morningstar, about 90 money management firms offer more than 200 products applying a 130/30 or... Read more...
Get ready for actively managed ETFs
It sounds like a oxymoron. An actively managed exchange-traded fund? Wasn't the point of an ETF to five customers low-cost access to passive products? PowerShares, the Invesco unit, apparently senses... Read more...
Crashing the private equity club?
It was only a matter of time before some one came up with an idea to let the little investor in on private equity investing. Which strikes me as a marketing concept more than anything. One example is... Read more...
And the biggest mutual fund company is...
Vanguard has pulled off quite a coup: it has wrestled the title 'biggest selling mutual fund company' away from... Read more...
