I spent part of last week in New York attending the Journal of Indexes editorial board meeting and the S&P 500 50th anniversary birthday bash. Both were great events, and gave me a lot of insight into what index developers are thinking about these days.

How does BGI's new EPAC Dividend ETF stack up against the WisdomTree offerings?

The ETF marketplace has gotten a lot more interesting recently. With over 500 ETFs tracking everything from commodities to currencies, ETFs have brought low-cost access to areas of the market where individual investors were not welcome just a few years ago. This great opening up has been good for investors, but it has also exposed them to new kinds of risks … risks which, in many cases, they do not understand.

There are a lot of things I love about the redesign of IndexUniverse.com: the great look and feel, the improved functionality, the expanded content possibilities. But one of the things I’m most excited about is this blog.

In ETFs, as in life, it's important to get what you pay for.

(Basically all) indexes march to new highs. Is anything cheap anymore?

Rob Bauer’s new study shines a light in the dark, dark corner of the mutual fund market.