This is the sixth in a series from BlackRock on exchange traded funds.

Home-office portfolios often outperform advisor-controlled ones, according to a Cerulli Associates report. Couple that with decreased compliance risk, and it’s likely the home-office model will become more prevalent in a post-DOL world...

(Bloomberg) -- Beneath a placid surface that broke last week, chaos has been reigning all year in U.S. equities...

The odds of a rate hike coming out of this month’s Fed meeting shot up last week, roiling not just the Treasury market, but stocks and gold as well.   Well, “shot up” may be overstating things a bit. The odds, implied by the Fed Funds futures ...

“What goes up must come down.” So, supposedly, said Isaac Newton. It turns out what applies to physics also applies to financial markets. So what went up? Well, about a month ago, we puzzled over the steepening contango in the Comex (CMX) gold...

(Bloomberg) -- Fidelity Investments, one of the largest U.S. mutual fund companies, is expanding its exchange-trade funds business by introducing its first so-called smart beta offerings...

(Bloomberg) -- New York Life Insurance Co.’s MainStay Investments hired Ken Bossen to help build the exchange-traded fund operation that seeks to mimic hedge fund strategies...

This is the fifth in a series from BlackRock in exchange traded funds.

Last week, we celebrated a little anniversary ‘round here. Quietly. VERY quietly...