(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...

If you want to understand why value strategies have trouble attracting inflows, look not at investors but at the people they hire.

(Bloomberg View) -- Forty years ago last week, Vanguard’s John Bogle created the first index mutual fund, offering investors a guarantee: They would never outperform the market, but nor would they underperform it. The Index Investment...

“Summer Charts” is a series of current financial topics explained in dots, lines and only a few words—just the right “mix” to concisely convey ideas for critical thinking about economic topics and investing.  My little community in Edgewater...

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. presidential election is nine weeks away, but Wall Street has already chosen a winner: itself...

St. Jude Medical Inc. filed a lawsuit against short-seller Muddy Waters, MedSec and related companies as well as three executives at the firms...

(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...

In recent years, many institutional investors have committed to measure and lower exposure to carbon emissions in their portfolios. But that presents a challenge: how to estimate such exposure, given the lack of disclosure by most companies about...

(Bloomberg View) -- Financial crises are becoming more frequent as markets and the rules that govern them grow ever more complex. New research suggests that this is no coincidence -- and that a simpler system would be a lot more resilient...

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