Todd Rosenbluth

With non-cap weighted indexes and manager-driven qualitative approaches increasingly found in ETF wrappers, the line between purely passive and active management is getting cloudier. The subject is up for discussion...

Core ETFs still gained the bulk of inflows, but some factor-driven and sector-focused funds have joined the rarified rank of ETFs that pulled in more than $1 billion so far this year.

With the mid-terms coming, it may be prudent to prune your client’s exposure to historically volatile stocks, and these ETFs make it easy. Here’s what CFRA suggests.

Despite recent and expected hikes by the Fed and stocks selling off, U.S. companies paid a record amount of cash dividends in the first quarter of 2018. These dividend-paying ETFs should be on your radar screen.

We think these value indexed funds’ performance relative to active funds is the result of investment decisions made by active managers, not the ETFs.

Investors need to understand that value funds and ETFs don't all look, or behave, alike. They warrant deeper scrutiny beyond costs.

When ETF holdings are not static, evaluating them based on past performance is a lot less relevant.

Asset managers are racing to lower fees for their ETFs to attract assets. Low expense ratios are eye-catching, but investors need to dig deeper to understand how similar sounding ETFs actually have different exposures...