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The top ETF news, analyses and in-depth articles on stock, bond, commodity, sector and other ETFs.
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March 18, 2010
Sector funds push past ETFsActively-managed sector funds are lately outperforming exchange traded funds, the Wall Street Journal reports. One reason for the success is that sector funds buy small...
March 16, 2010
ETF Flows: Select Sector SPDRs: Weekly Flows Through March 5For the week ended March 5th, the S&P 500 eked out a 0.99% gain for the week; it's up 3.13% year-to-date.
March 16, 2010
Fed Keeps Rates SteadyThe Fed kept Fed Funds rates "exceptionally low," at 0% to 0.25% and expects to continue to do so for "an extended period."
March 15, 2010
Investors Jump Back Into Market but Are Uncertain of Steps AheadSchwab sees areas of improvement and concern in economy
March 15, 2010
Mutual Funds or ETFs? Or Both?I, like many of you, enjoy the money management aspects of this business. This week I took a fresh look at the categories in which...
March 11, 2010
Massachusetts LTC Insurance Market GrowsThe number of Massachusetts residents with individual private long term care insurance increased to 97,644 in 2008, up about 23% from the total who had coverage in 2004.
March 10, 2010
Market beatersEveryone has a strategy for beating the market, and yet most all of the strategies offered for sale don't beat the market, and most all of the mutual funds we offer don't beat the market either.