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.
Discussion of the tradeoffs involved in index selection as well as some of the problems of proposed innovations.
The author unveils a methodology that seeks to incorporate the collective decisions of fund managers into investable benchmarks.
To be or not to be? That was the question the Securities and Exchange Commission put to proponents and detractors of actively managed ETFs.
The more investors know about ETFs, the more likely they are to use them, says the American Stock Exchange.
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.
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...
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.