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Vanguard VIPERs Find Role in Expanding ETF Market
By Staff WriterDuring the frigid winter of 1777, Valley Forge, Penn., was home to America's army. It was there a rigorous training regime under the command of...
June 01, 2006
First-Quarter WinnersThe first quarter of 2006 is in the history books and except for bond indexes, the performance of exchange-traded funds in most categories was good. Strong...
June 01, 2006
'RBC Dain Rauscher Grows on Rivals Home TurfRBC Dain Rauscher knows how to pick its battles. It's going head-to-head with the likes of Wachovia Securities in, you guessed it, the Southeast. "Their appetite...
June 01, 2006
The Matsko MatrixWhere to start with an advisor like Briggs Matsko, except by the numbers? The firm he manages, California Fringe Benefit, handles 33 employer institutions, mostly hospital...
June 01, 2006
Early-Bird iShares Catch the ShareholdersThe ETF business wasn't always this fun. And the people at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), sponsor of the iShares, can attest to it. In 1996,...
June 01, 2006
How to Succeed at the FedIn December 1996, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average just above 7,000 and the technology-dominated Nasdaq Composite index under 1,500, Alan Greenspan made his famous...
May 02, 2006
Fridge Ploy Not Cool with Grand JuryCHARLOTTE, N.C. (HedgeWorld.com)--A federal grand jury has indicted a husband and wife in charges arising out of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's lawsuit filed against Tech Traders LLC two years ago. The grand jury, at the behest of Gretchen C.F. Shappert, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina,...
May 01, 2006
Why Would Your Employees Leave?Moss-Adams's research over the past five years revealed these findings on employee retention: Of employees leaving advisory firms, 8% were terminated for cause. Another...