A twice-yearly pall has settled over mutual fund managers in the wake of the latest SPIVA Scorecard’s release. For the past 14 years, the S&P Indices Versus Active Funds Scorecard, now published by S&P Dow Jones Indices, has measured the performa...
(Bloomberg) -- CBOE Holdings Inc.’s $3.2 billion deal to acquire Bats Global Markets Inc. is some of the strongest evidence yet of exchange-traded funds’ growing importance on Wall Street...
Over the past few years, the popularity of TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Talks has mushroomed. The talks, in case you haven’t seen any, are a series of concise “big idea” presentations made by scientists, artists, educators and other...
(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. is recommending investors switch to actively-managed bond funds if they want the best returns in emerging markets after a rally this year that was driven by inflows into passive portfolios falters...
(Bloomberg Gadfly) -- When you bought that MLP your friend told you about that time you had drinks a few years back, you didn't think you were signing up for this:
But what were you really signing up for? Two excha...
(Bloomberg) -- Two of the financial industry’s biggest names -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. -- are in the race for Wall Street supremacy in the $3 trillion global market for exchange-traded funds...
(Bloomberg View) -- For the first time since 1999, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index is being reconfigured. The last time was when technology was established as an independent sector...
