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Schwab Fund Fees Reduced
By Bob KeaneCharles Schwab Investment Management announced that it has made a permanent move to lower expenses, simplify share classes, and lower minimum investment levels to $100 for all of its Schwab equity index funds.
May 01, 2009
Game ChangerIf you believe his critics, Barack Obama is an agent of socialism whose economic and social agenda includes nothing less than the goal of massively...
May 01, 2009
State Street Launches Long-Term Bond ETFState Street Global Advisors has just introduced the SPDR Barclays Capital Long Term Credit Bond ETF (LWC). LWC provides market exposure to long-term (10-plus years) investment-grade...
May 01, 2009
Q109 Results: Fixed Income UpThe top-performing floating-rate taxable funds gained from about 8.80 percent to as much as 13.77 percent in the first three months of 2009, according to...
May 01, 2009
The ETF Advisor: Energy EdgeThe nearly $100 per barrel plunge in oil prices since last summer, coupled with the credit crisis and stock market decline, hit the nascent biofuels...
May 01, 2009
Commodities Shine in Early '09Silver, copper and lead funds rose as much as 39 percent in the period. And the Tocqueville Gold Fund (TGLDX) moved up 19 percent. The...
May 01, 2009
Industry News: Vanguard, Fidelity, JanusFidelity Investments says it reopened the Fidelity Diversified International Fund and Fidelity Small Cap Stock Fund to new investors and accounts on March 30. The...