ETFs

Sales people are having a hard time marketing new products in isolation, one executive says.

Nearly all of your efforts should revolve around your website, showing who you are and why your firm is different, says marketing expert Dan Sondhelm.

The major issuers of leveraged products, which trade under the ProShares and Direxion trademarks, have each posted inflows of over $2.8 billion this month.

The central bank’s pledge to buy investment-grade credit and certain funds helped spark a rally in higher-rated debt.

The manager may collect over $4 million per year for managing a separate portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities issued by government agencies.

The iShares fund saw the second-biggest inflow in its 18-year history after the central bank said it would begin buying corporate bonds and credit ETFs.

After becoming unmoored in recent weeks as bond market liquidity dried up, funds that stand to benefit from the central bank’s buying are now rallying.

The funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

Five of the top seven performers this year carry AA ratings.

The fund paid out about $150 billion in redemptions Thursday, all in cash.

Funds with higher risk profiles — high-yield and emerging markets — are now paying the price.

The VanEck fund’s sell-off was so violent that it triggered the SEC’s alternative uptick rule.

These retirement vehicles can be less complex and cheaper than alternatives.

With more than $80 billion in combined assets under management, the winners have started out the year with a loss.

Few clients think to look at the impact of capital gains on their mutual funds.

Fund managers may be better equipped to weather the market storm than their passive peers because of their ability to quickly cut risk.

The ETF’s debut marks the first big entrant into the zero-cost space with the potential to shake up products from BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard.

Roughly two-thirds of the $1.2 billion contributions to the firm in 2019 came from appreciated assets.

"Asset managers need to be faster and smarter to make the right bets in a fast-changing external environment.”

Mutual funds and ETFs are often created with lopsided or unequal allocations toward certain sectors of the economy, experts warn.