At last week’s baseball game, my friend fretted over the slump in the price of his United States Oil Fund (NYSE Arca: USO) shares. I spent the better part of an inning explaining an optimization of his covered call strategy after he...
(Bloomberg) -- Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the owner of the New York Stock Exchange and some of the world’s biggest futures markets, has the booming business of bond exchange-traded funds in its sights...
The passification of the investment management industry continues to gain momentum though unevenly and not without limits or borders. Across the globe, regardless of type, clients are more discerning. In this hyper low return environment, they ar...
The passification of the investment management industry continues to gain momentum though unevenly and not without limits or borders. Across the globe, regardless of type, clients are more discerning. In this hyper-low return environment, they ar...
If the market for so-called “smart beta” exchange traded funds (ETFs) is, by now, close to saturated, what is the next wave coming out of asset management shops? By the flood of recent launches, it looks like thematic 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...
