For areas in the Upper Midwest, Mark Henneman’s Mairs & Power Growth Fund is attractive for its deep roots, no frills and a long horizon.

Global actively managed exchange-traded funds have increased their assets by 41 percent this year to $61 billion at the end of August.

The company is evaluating ways to package both its quantitative and active strategies into ETFs.

The greatest investor of our era is trying to teach us all a lesson.

By the end of September, 42 exchange-traded funds are set to close, the most ever in a single month. Of those, 21 are leveraged or inverse funds.

Judging by the growing demand for a variety of hedges, investors are seeking insurance in case stocks reverse course.

Fund flows are sending encouraging short-term signals, says TrimTabs CEO David Santschi, though the quarterly volume of corporate buybacks, highly correlated with the S&P 500, has dropped to the lowest level in eight years.

The put-to-call ratio of SPDR Gold Shares, the largest ETF backed by the metal, is the highest in two years.

Inflationary expectations are a weather vane.

Joel Tillinghast, who specializes in small-cap stocks, said his job as portfolio manager has also become tougher because of the changing nature of the U.S. economy.