During an investor webinar Tuesday, Morningstar’s ETF team shared some of their best ideas for investing in ETFs in 2011 and provided a look inside their own portfolio. Overall, they recommended investors tilt their portfolios toward...
The New Year will bring continued downward pressure on asset management fees. Will you keep the change or pass the saving through to your clients?
With money pouring into index funds and ETFs, passive portfolios are distorting share prices.
Gold rocked in 2010. But what is the best, least volatile way to play the barbarous relic? Gold mining stocks or gold bullion via the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)?
According to Morningstar, passive portfolios hold 22 percent of fund assets, up from 11 percent in 1999. Now it is no longer possible to ignore the impact of indexing.
ETFs are all the rage, but be careful. Trading volume is key to success.
What happens if everyone buys into index funds? For years Jack Bogle and other proponents of index funds have brushed aside that question.
There's very little real difference between the performance of mutual funds and ETPs in the commodity space, but there's a whole lot of difference in the products' risk characteristics.
