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Getting Better Execution
By Ron DeLeggeAlthough commissions and expense ratios are easy to understand, financial advisors shouldn’t overlook another important measure of better ETF investing:…
July 01, 2013
What’s Driving the Strong Outlook for MLPs?The number and variety of master limited partnerships (MLPs) keep growing. In addition to traditional MLP businesses and business models, new entrants…
July 01, 2013
Behavioral Finance in the Real World: Fund Profits From Human BiasRalf Scherschmidt's fund identifies small-cap companies in the developed world that are overlooked by market bias and then takes advantage of earnings surprises.
July 01, 2013
North America’s share of global premiums to declineThe report pegs the share of global life premiums held by North America and Oceania in 2023 at 23 percent.
July 01, 2013
Nervous Global Markets but a Calm VIX: Where Do We Stand?Investors and businesses may have learned their lessons in 2008-2009, but what about the "Lords of Liquidity?"
June 28, 2013
Why Axel Merk Owns GoldBecause the road to hell a road stretching from the Fed to the Eurozone to the U.K. to Japan is paved with good intentions, he says.
June 28, 2013
Vanguard Wraps Up Benchmark Switch, Taps Muni Bond Fund ManagersThe fund giant moves 22 index funds with $650 billion in assets to FTSE and CRSP benchmarks, including popular emerging-markets products.
June 28, 2013
Top Portfolio Products: T. Rowe Debuts Global Allocation FundOther products introduced over the last week include two new Japan-focused ETFs from Direxion and a covered call ETF from Horizons USA.