Todd Rosenbluth

Cheap is good, but when it comes to ETFs, it's what's inside the fund that really matters.

SoFi, an online financial services firm, is the first company to offer zero-fee ETFs, but it likely won’t be the last.

From multifactor funds to hidden gems, here is what to expect during the 2019 Inside ETFs Conference in Hollywood Beach, Fla., starting Sunday.

The four 2021 maturity date bond ETFs highlighted here took in $1.26 billion of net inflows since the beginning of 2018, and now have $3 billion in net assets.

If the move to passive investing continues at the same furious pace as in recent years, the total assets under management in U.S. equity passive index funds will outpace AUM in active funds by the end of 2019.

Rather than just chasing performance, fund flows demonstrate investors are increasingly finding comfort in the lower-cost and index-based approach.

At long last, value investing appears primed to play a larger role in the new year. But beware, not all value ETFs are built the same.

Investors may have just adopted factor investing in 2015, but they quickly began implementing between two and four strategies on average.