ETFs

Has anybody noticed how expensive it's gotten to hold gold? Gold futures, I mean. The contango in the Comex market has ballooned. Contango's the premium you pay for contracting a deferred delivery. Typically, the further out your futures delivery...

Retirement plan keepers embracing the fiduciary rule. | Copyright Alex Wong, Getty Images Many advisors not currently operating under a fiduciary standard were unhappy when the Department of Labor finalized its conflict of interest rule in Apr...

Lee Kranefuss launched iShares in 2000, when there were a mere 40 ETFs. Now, there are over 6,000 ETFs globally, according to BlackRock estimates. And while Kranefuss no longer works at iShares, he’s trying to help advisors make sense of the...

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cleared the way for issuers of actively managed exchange-traded funds to get their products on the market faster...

(Bloomberg) -- Index funds often benefit from a low-cost halo. They don't all deserve to bask in that glow...

Transformative. | Copyright Oil Scarff, Getty ImagesThat's what wealth looks like. | Copyright Chung Sung-Jun, Getty ImagesIt shouldn't be a catastrophe. | Copyright Christopher Furlong, Getty Images ARK Investment Management has launched the fi...

(Bloomberg) -- Turns out, one of the hottest parts of the $2.3 trillion ETF industry has a little-noticed quirk with the potential to blindside users...

Blue chip bullishness could be curtailed by junk bonds.

(Bloomberg) -- Investors judging the world economic outlook as a bit more stable are taking some of the shine off gold...

The equity/bond ratio rule of thumb worked well, until it didn’t. Advisors need to turn elsewhere to hedge their risks.