Plan sponsors share top barriers to ETF use in new survey.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are on the rise. Globally, ETFs have grown in number and in assets under management by about 25% per year for more than a decade now.
Back when I first started blogging about exchange-traded funds (ETFs), institutional use was pretty sparse and limited to handful of products. However, that picture has changed markedly over the last few years—institutional use has grown exponentially and the spectrum of products they’re turning to is also shifting, with greater attention on fixed income ETFs for liquid access.
Waiting for a rate hike? According to the folks at Bloomberg nine of the 10 biggest exchange-traded fund losers in the U.S. debt market were those following a strategy of betting against Treasuries.
A new report by the International Monetary Fund puts the regulatory spotlight on exchange-traded funds and mutual funds. This time, however, the IMF isn’t pointing simply to issues such as leverage or technology -- it’s cutting to the very heart of what ETFs offer investors: liquidity.
Views on China's economy are divided. Some think it looks like the U.S. in the 1940s; others think it's more like the U.S. circa 2008. Investors, however, see signs of both as recent exchange-traded fund activity shows.
In Canada, mutual funds still trump exchange-traded funds (ETFs) when it comes to assets, but in the U.S. last week, investors pulled money out of mutual funds while ETFs saw big inflows.
Questrade Wealth Management launched six exchange-traded funds on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
One new area that has been getting some attention are exchange-traded funds based on U.S. municipal bonds, which tap into the need for U.S. cities and towns to refurbish and build infrastructure.
Why aren’t DC plans including ETFs in their rosters?