ETFs

The ready-made strategies have been around for years, but in an era of fee wars and ETFs its popularity is exploding.

It’s the latest dramatic twist in the story of USO, which was at the center of the storm as crude prices plunged earlier this year.

Clients opened almost 1.2 million retail accounts, boosting flows to mutual funds and ETFs, the firm reports.

While the money held in delisted products is a fraction of the overall exchange-traded market, analysts warn those billions could be time bombs.

Fees for the category's best performing mutual funds and ETFs are much like the price of bullion: expensive.

“How many minority-owned ETFs do you know?” an advisor asks.

Now, with a flood of day traders entering the market, a memorable moniker could be more valuable than ever.

Innovator ETFs, an asset manager, will debut its so-called buffer funds at a time when Treasury yields are hovering near historic lows and duration risk climbs.

While Guinness Atkinson pursues the first full mutual fund-to-ETF conversion, similar moves have begun elsewhere in the fund industry.

The fund industry's latest arrivals underline the seismic shifts underway in the business of asset management.

If clients “looked just three months ago, these numbers would be glaringly different,” an expert says.

The funds have recorded $248 billion in net inflows in 2020, up about 5% from this time last year.

The 20 top-performers have generated gains well over 50% in the first seven months of the year.

A combination of GLD’s higher fees and an almost relentless demand for the yellow metal have catapulted it from fourth on the revenue leader board in 2017.

Trading under the ticker EFIV, the fund will exclude companies involved with tobacco-related products and weapons.

An iShares ETF investing in companies it says has “positive environmental, social and governance characteristics” has more than tripled gains of the S&P 500.

If approved, the firm would be able to issue its own ETFs, although they haven’t registered any individual funds yet.

There has been increased demand for havens amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases, flaring political tensions and a weaker dollar.

“No one could have envisioned what this virus was going to do to the commercial real estate space,” an expert says.

Using machine-learning algorithms, the firm's $106 billion systematic active equity group researches social media pages and online job postings to build portfolios.