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Investment-grade corporate bonds and related exchange traded funds are options to consider for fixed income investors looking for higher yields and potentially better total returns than what's offered by Treasuries and traditional diversified bond funds. The Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate...

Asset manager Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) finalized its acquisition of Guggenheim's exchange traded funds business and announced new, lower fees on the acquired BulletShares ETFs. Nearly all of Guggenheim's ETFs have been folded into Invesco's PowerShares family of ETFs. The deal cements...

Mid-cap stocks have been only slightly less worse than large-caps this year. For example, the S&P MidCap 400 Index is lower by 2.2 percent compared to a year-to-date loss of 2.3 percent for the S&P 500. Yet some exchange traded funds indicate mid-cap growth names have been significantly...

Investors looking to circle their wagons around the still-lagging value factor in hopes value stocks will rebound later this year have plenty of exchange traded funds to consider. That group includes the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 Value ETF (NYSE: SPYV). The $1.33-billion SPYV is CFRA Research'...

The iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF (NYSE: KSA), the only exchange traded fund listed in New York dedicated exclusively to Saudi Arabian equities, jumped 2.13 percent Monday on volume that was nearly eight times the daily average. That extends KSA's year-to-date gain to almost 11.6 percent,...

The Federal Open Market Committee meets this week, and many bond market participants expect the Fed to raise interest rates after having done so three times in 2017. Expectations of higher borrowing costs have previously been seen as detrimental to dividend stocks and exchange traded funds, but...

Previously announced changes to the telecommunications sector, including renaming that sector as communications services, will take full effect in late September, but some issuers of exchange traded funds are already in preparation mode. Vanguard, the second-largest U.S. ETF sponsor, said it is...

Vanguard, one of the fund issuers widely credited with spurring the low-cost, passive investing revolution, stepped into actively managed exchange traded funds Thursday by launching six factor-based ETFs. While actively managed funds, including ETFs, typically carry higher fees than their passive...

More than 200 new ETFs came to market in 2017. The pace of ETF launches is blistering to start 2018, as more than 30 new ETFs, or more than one per day, have come to market since the turn of the year.  Some new ETFs are immediately successful while others struggle to gain investor traction....

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) is the exchange traded fund that started an investing revolution. SPY, the first ETF to trade in the U.S., celebrated its 25th anniversary on Monday while notching another milestone. SPY became the first ETF to hit $300 billion in assets under management,...

Investors love low-cost exchange traded funds. Fortunately, ETF fees are declining, giving frugal investors plenty of choices for accessing multiple asset classes. When it comes to cheap small-cap ETFs, the Schwab US Small-Cap ETF (NYSE: SCHA) is one of the cheapest. With an annual expense ratio of...

There is no denying investors' thirst for international exchange traded funds in 2017. As the U.S. bull market ages,  investors are are flocking to low-fee ex-U.S. ETFs in search of new frontiers for potential upside. Five of this year's top 10 asset-gathering ETFs are funds dedicated...

Emerging markets are delivering for investors in 2017. The widely followed MSCI Emerging Markets Index is up 33 percent this year, and two emerging markets exchange traded funds — the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: IEMG) and the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO)...

Two obvious themes from the world of exchange traded funds this year are Vanguard's jaw-dropping growth and investors' preference for ex-U.S. developed markets funds. Those themes meet in the Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (NYSE: VEA). Year-to-date, investors have added $16.2 billion...

As is the case with equity-based exchange traded funds, fixed income ETFs are enjoying a record pace of asset gathering in 2017 and low-cost bond funds are leading that charge. One of the low-cost leaders among bond ETFs is the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (NYSE: BND). BND charges a scant 0.05...