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By Staff WriterBarclays Global Investors has unveiled its "ETF Managed Solutions Guide" designed for financial advisors in identifying more than 30 third-party managers (or TPMs) who offer model ETF portfolios.
March 19, 2009
New Rules for Money Market FundsThe Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute endorsed March 17 recommendations from the Money Market Working Group to require new regulatory and oversight...
March 19, 2009
Self-directed investors driving ETF growthSelf-directed investors have a greater interest in ETFs than advised investors, according to new findings from Cogent Research released this week. According to Cogent, self-directed investors'...
March 19, 2009
NAIC Eyes Shift On Rating Agencies.A rating agency panel ought to consider whether insurance regulators should use improved communications to reduce the risk that agency actions will disrupt insurers.
March 18, 2009
FASB Unveils Fair Value ProposalsThe Financial Accounting Standards Board has posted two drafts of guidance that could ease the effect of mark-to-market accounting rules.
March 18, 2009
Retirement Portfolios & ETFsThough short-focused or commodity-themed exchange traded funds (ETFs) are making headlines for their performance, such funds are only a small part of the ETF universe.
March 18, 2009
FASB Unveils Fair Value ProposalsThe Financial Accounting Standards Board has posted two drafts of guidance that could ease the effect of mark-to-market accounting rules.
March 16, 2009
iShares Unit May Be Sold (March 16, 2009)Several news sources are reporting that Barclays Plc is in talks to sell its iShares exchange-traded funds unit. The U.K.'s third- biggest bank is trying...