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Foreign Debuts on the Upswing
By Staff WriterThe number of foreign-market ETFs continues to expand as investors look to diversify their portfolios away from U.S. stocks. Barclays Global Investors (BGI) launched five new...
June 01, 2008
Northern Trust Goes GlobalNorthern Trust Global Investments is the latest company to enter the ETF field. The Chicago-based company has introduced a lineup of eight foreign-equity ETFs. The...
June 01, 2008
PowerShares Debutes 'ETF of ETFs'Fund of fund solutions have been a hit with mutual funds and now they're poised to become a hit with exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Invesco PowerShares has...
June 01, 2008
Pinning Down PricesIt seems almost providential that at a time when financial market gyrations have been keeping broker/dealers on their toes that Nasdaq should come out with...
June 01, 2008
Whiter ETFs?During the mid-1990s, the first generation of ETFs arose to track key benchmark indexes, like the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq-100. Toward...
June 01, 2008
What Will World Markets Look Like?It's been a great 30 years for Research magazine. But what do the next 30 hold? And what do 2038 capital markets look like? Hard...
May 31, 2008
Are your prospects actively involved?One of the most critical yet overlooked principles in the selling process is the power of self-discovery through customer involvement. Regrettably, many salespeople use a "show and tell" presentation style and babble on hoping they might
May 29, 2008
NAIC Gets Earful Over Market DataA conference call about a National Association of Insurance Commissioners proposal to collect market conduct data through the annual statement process drew more than 100 ...