SPDR

These funds can affordably provide clients with REIT exposure.

With damage from hurricanes Harvey and Irma clocking in at more than $150 billion, will funds with high exposure to property and casualty insurance take a hit?

The firm wants to adopt a new benchmark that would add specialty REITs to the mix.

No performance chasers here; these investors buy on the downside.

To add insult to injury, these losers charge high fees – 12 of the 20 have expense ratios over 1%.

Investors pulled $2.1 billion from domestic mutual funds and ETFs in the week ending July 12.

Assets in products susceptible to the risk of fire sales during a future shock are up 673% since 2000.

Actively managed funds saw the majority of the largest outflows this year as investors flocked to less expensive passive alternatives.

Money’s not leaving the markets, but rather moving in an “old fashioned” rotation that favors value stocks and small-caps at the expense of tech.

After yanking $719.9 million from a technology fund in May, investors poured $1.78 billion in one day to another fund in the sector.