ETF Report

 Island and Instinet at War Over ETF Volume

The battle for market share in ETF trading heated up in March as Instinet and Island, the dominant electronic communication networks, declared war by cutting fees associated with trading ETFs and boosting rebates for adding volume in ETF share trading.

Journal Of Indexes

Perfection Impossible

Discussion of the tradeoffs involved in index selection as well as some of the problems of proposed innovations.

Journal Of Indexes

Index Rex

The author unveils a methodology that seeks to incorporate the collective decisions of fund managers into investable benchmarks.

ETF Report

 Making a Case for Active ETFs

To be or not to be? That was the question the Securities and Exchange Commission put to proponents and detractors of actively managed ETFs.

ETF Report

 Polling Retail Investors

The more investors know about ETFs, the more likely they are to use them, says the American Stock Exchange.

ETF Report

 Steady Asset Performance for MidCap ETF

The Bank of New York currently manages about 35% of ETF assets on a global basis, which is made up of 21 US funds and 17 non-US funds.

ETF Report

 Updates March 2002

SSgA's Australian property ETF enjoys good start, A first: Ex-US ETFs outnumber those in US, 13 new ETFs track FTSE global sectors indices, and more...

ETF Report

 Gearing Up for Retail

While most industry observers agree that retail ETF investing is on the rise, facts supporting such statements have either not been quantified or are not available for publication.