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SEC to Investors: Know What You Are Paying For
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… The SEC is telling investors to keep a close eye on the transaction costs and ongoing fees they pay for investment products and to ask tough questions about those charges to avoid having costs eat away at their returns. …
Active ETFs Line Up to Catch Fiduciary Wave: BNY
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… Financial advisors are likely to boost their allocations to ETFs by two thirds — with much of the gain going to active funds — in response to the Labor Department’s new fiduciary rule, new survey data …
Wave of new strategic beta ETFs make passive investing more complicated
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… No one likes more rules — unless they're rolling out a new exchange-traded fund. At the Morningstar ETF conference last week, strategic beta was one of the biggest topics of conversation. …
Banks face $5bn hit to research teams as asset managers cut spending
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… Asset managers intend to cut their analyst research budgets by 30 per cent, heaping more pain on the investment banking industry that has already been forced to make thousands of people redundant on the back of falling profitability. …
Smart beta ETFs look tasty
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… Smart beta products have been hailed as “the next big thing” — so many times, in fact, that it’s become a cliché. The marketing muscle behind these products is equally enthusiastic …
Trend Setting or Fad Chasing? Fund Giants Bet on 'Thematic' ETFs
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… Some of the biggest mutual fund companies are betting part of their ETF strategy on investors’ interest in funds targeting “themes” such as generational change, technology disruption …
Dutch watchdog urges clarity on active ETFs
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… The Dutch regulator has devised a screening tool to help distributors navigate the features of smart beta and actively managed exchange … out revealed that investors are failing to distinguish these products from conventional ETFs. …
AJ Bell launches passives-only managed portfolio service
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… AJ Bell has broadened its investment offering with the introduction of a passives-only managed portfolio service (MPS). The MPS features five portfolios constructed according to their respective risk brackets, which will be rebalanced on …
Vanguard Attracts Record New Money as Investors Flock to Passive
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… It’s another record for Vanguard Group Inc. The firm, which has grown to become the world’s largest mutual fund manager by offering low-cost …
Canadian regulators consider ban on mutual fund trailer fees
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… The Canadian Securities Administrators, a group of the nation's provincial securities regulators, said on …