Todd Rosenbluth

Despite a wide array of actively managed and smart beta choices, the funds that shined in the first eight months of 2018 are tracking the boring S&P 500 Index.

While sibling rivalry is common, investors have largely ignored some compelling ETFs.

While market-cap weighted ETFs are heavy with Facebook stock, multi-factor ETFs offer less exposure to the troubled tech giant.

It is important to understand that when investors shift their market-cap focus, sector exposure can vary even inside similar sounding strategies.

Investors who shifted to index-based ETFs and mutual funds have generally been rewarded in the first half of 2018, as most actively managed funds failed to keep up with the cheaper alternatives despite the belief we...

ETFs that offer meaningful exposure to the industrials sector—particularly air freight and logistics—are primed to do well in the second half of 2018, according to a CFRA analysis.

Investors don’t need to wait for a three-year record before investing in an ETF—in this structure, age really is just a number. Here’s a roundup of young, but favored, ETFs, based on CFRA’s independent analysis.

With non-cap weighted indexes and manager-driven qualitative approaches increasingly found in ETF wrappers, the line between purely passive and active management is getting cloudier. The subject is up for discussion...