A mini Ric Edelman? | Copyright Oli Scarff, Getty Images Ric Edelman’s “exponential technology” strategy for investment management is now a BlackRock ETF.  The new iShares Exponential Technologies ETF (nysearca:XT) began with the Edelman F...

Last week could be best wrapped up by a heat map of the ETF universe, unless it was inverse or tied to volatility, it was nothing but shades of green last week as the FOMC officially ran out of patience but the doves delivered an unexpected...

Brothers from another mother. What’s the difference? Financial advisor Allan Roth argues on ETF.com (of all places) that ETFs are great, but in essence, similar Vanguard ETFs and mutual funds are "simply different share classes" of the sam...

Cartoonist puts it all into perspective

A strategy used by institutional investors to preserve capital is now easily available to individuals via retail funds. But do they perform as advertised? 

Bond ETF holders are bailing

Tear. | Aleksandr Frolov/iStock/Thinkstock A new study by TD Ameritrade found that two-thirds of U.S. adults have experienced an event that seriously disrupted their long-term saving and retirement plans, most commonly losing a job, or havin...

Strategic beta ETFs had $402 billion in total assets at year-end 2014

Beer and skittles in Belgian and Dutch stocks?

There's a happy medium in the financial services industry between the wirehouses and independents--regional brokerages, which have been gaining in advisors and competing more with the RIA channel in the past three years. The reasons, according ...