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There may not be a cure for the summertime blues, but the exchange-traded funds industry is making things interesting with a spate of new product launches. Dispelling the notion that July is a slow, uneventful time on Wall Street, new ETF launches topped double digits last week. Many of these new...

Insurance providers are among the institutional investors driving exchange-traded funds growth, and data suggest there is plenty of room for insurers to play a significant role in the adoption of ETFs among professional investors. The Role Of Insurers “Insurers held just $19 billion in ETF...

Stocks have a less-than-stellar reputation in the month of June, as the S&P 500 often notches slightly negative returns in the sixth month of the year. That does not mean investors need to eschew equities altogether, but June gloom could mean emphasizing factors such as quality could prove...

Last week, Vanguard, the second-largest issuer of exchange-traded funds in the United States, reminded investors it takes low fees seriously. Vanguard pared expenses on three of its popular ETFs and related share classes, including equity behemoths such as the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSE...

Nearly 300 exchange-traded funds listed in the United States offer exposure to China in some form or fashion. These include single-country ETFs, such as the popular iShares China Large-Cap ETF (NYSE: FXI) as well as diversified emerging markets ETFs, including the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) traded up 0.45 percent in after hours activity Wednesday after Bernstein initated coverage of the automaker with a Market Perform rating and a $250 price target. The sentiment closely reflects that of other analysts so far in 2017. According to TipRanks, sell-side...

The proliferation of and assets flowing to smart beta exchange-traded funds are themes ETF industry observers widely expect to continue and data support those notions. At the end of January, there were 600 smart beta ETFs with a combined assets under management tally of nearly $480 billion....

After being one of last year's best-performing sectors, the industrial sector is again proving solid. To start 2017, The Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLI), the largest exchange-traded fund dedicated to industrial stocks, is higher by 6.6 percent. The Continuing Case For Industrials...

Broadly speaking, value stocks crushed their growth counterparts last year. The average growth mutual fund gained just 1.7 percent last year, severely lagging the average gain of 14.6 percent for value mutual funds, according to CFRA Research. The iShares Edge MSCI USA Value Factor ETF (iShares...

Technology, the largest sector weight in the S&P 500, topped the broader market last year with much of that strength attributable to semiconductor stocks. And when discussing strong semiconductor names, the conversation must include NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA). The Nvidia Push Shares of...

There was ample talk of slowing dividend growth last year, but S&P 500 member firms delivered 5 percent more cash to investors than they did in 2015. Still, the current environment for equities, one where some experts expect multiple interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year, means...

Energy investors should consider Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to diversify their portfolio structures. Best known for their function in REITs, MLPs deliver periodic payments to their investors from cash flows. MLPs make up a huge portion of the energy market with more than 100 funds...