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Can You Use ETFs to Beat the Market?
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… popular investment baskets that mimic market benchmarks like the S&P 500-stock index or the Barclays U.S... …
Chart of the day: What MSCI might mean for A share fund flows
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… institutional investors are positioning for the likely inclusion later this year of A shares in MSCI stock …
Factor indices – a smarter name for smart beta
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… derived from the statistics of alpha and beta and it is unlikely that managers running a FTSE 100 or similar index strategy would like to be referred to as managing “dumb beta” portfolios. … value of 1.0. It is expressed as the volatility of returns compared to a benchmark, such as the FTSE 100. A fund with a …
Fuhr: the shooting stars of active management often fall hardest
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… The performance of active fund managers is like the path of a meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere, … just published the Persistence Scorecard – a semi-annual companion report that compares funds to each other, rather … bottom-quartile funds. Funds with poor performance are most likely to be liquidated or merged. The scorecard illustrates …
Are you backing the most traded ETFs?
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… second instalment of MiFID, which is on the horizon, it is likely that ETF trades will have to be reported in Europe and there will be a consolidated tape combining the trades that happen on the 21 exchanges in … to invest in ETFs at any time during the trading day, just like normal shares, which is a significant benefit over …
Costs fall as rivalry grows - but TERs still have a long way to go
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… in Europe have declined over the past year as increasing competition among providers has helped drive costs down. … Meaningful analysis of funds can only be through a like-for-like analysis based on cost and performance and it is …
Largest U.S. university endowment funds pull back on ETF exposure
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… mutual fund managers at a time when ETF providers like BlackRock Inc are seeing the majority of investor …
Changing Tides in the Global Trading Landscape
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… With capital markets becoming more and more global, it is impossible to limit … geographical borders. So as new European-based regulations like Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) come into effect overseas, Canadian capital markets are …
Hartford Funds Launches Hartford Global Impact Fund, Expanding Socially Responsible Investing Lineup
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… will seek long-term capital appreciation by investing in companies that focus their operations in areas that the Fund believes are likely to address the world’s major social and environmental …
Does Your Mutual Fund Manager Have Skin In The Game? These Do
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… has a lot of their own money invested in the fund are more likely to outperform than funds whose managers have little …