ETFs

Charles Schwab announced on Thursday three new, low-cost bond exchange-traded funds with no online trading commissions for Schwab clients.

If you’re a fan of bonds issued in local currencies, your job just got slightly easier.

Net inflows into exchange-traded funds in the first half of 2010 beat inflows into ETFs in the previous year, according to State Street Global Advisors, the investment management business of State Street Corporation.

Jersey-City based Knight will pay approximately $20 million in cash and stock for Astor when the acquisition is completed in the fourth quarter.

With gold seen as the place to be, BlackRock introduces its first gold mutual fund in the U.S., and shaves its gold ETF fees from 40 BPS to 25.

The trend for precise exchange-traded fund offerings resurfaces, as returns and yields compress.

Two new Standard & Poor’s indexes tracking municipal bonds launched yesterday, paving the way for Vanguard to enter the municipal exchange-traded fund business.

The good news for investors is that actively-managed ETFs are likely to grow further and are showing some momentum.

The number of exchange-traded funds has surged the past few years, bringing a unique business opportunity to Russell Indexes in Tacoma.

The mutual fund giant plans to launch equity funds and ETFs along with municipal bond and international real estate products

ETF Trends launches an enhanced version.

As of May 31, 885 exchange-traded funds in the United States had $748 billion in assets, down 5.5% from a month earlier.

Mutual fund investors preferred bonds, while gold set the standard for ETF inflows.

The San Francisco discount brokerage firm reported that its daily average client trades in May increased 14% from a year earlier and 17% from a month earlier.

Biggest drop is a 21 BPS reduction on the Market Vectors Vietnam ETF.

Total exchange-traded fund assets continue to surge as popularity grows.

Retail investors are expecting a roller coaster ride in the stock market over the next few months making it critical to re-evaluate investment strategies and determine goals going forward.

Pax World Management is breaking more new ground by rolling out the industry’s first family of environmental, social and governance ETFs.

State Street Global Advisors and Nuveen Investments launched an exchange-traded fund tracking Build America Bonds yesterday as investment vehicles devoted to taxable municipal debt continue to proliferate.

According to monthly data assets held in U.S. exchange-traded funds rose 2.9% from a month earlier to $830 billion.