(Bloomberg) -- Fidelity Investments is seeking permission to offer exchange traded funds that track customized indexes, providing the firm with an entree into the fastest growing sector of the ETF market...

The charts say “yes.”

At least for now, investors are confident Yellen can keep things from getting out of hand.

There are a number of EM barometers that investors should be watching.

(Bloomberg) -- Blackstone Group LP, the asset manager run by Stephen Schwarzman, will shutter a mutual fund that allocates money to hedge fund managers following a large redemption by the vehicle’s main backer, Fidelity Investments...

Bonds were slower than stocks to face the threat from indexing because their returns typically are lower and the difference in performance among funds is often modest

(Bloomberg) -- Bats Global Markets Inc. is telling prospective investors that it’s trying to gobble up a piece of NYSE Group Inc.’s $2 trillion ETF listing pie...

Whereas emerging economies without the commodity emphasis continue to outperform broad EM, the tactical approach to “play” a commodity recovery has also produced positive results.