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Earlier this year, Vanguard proposed to investors an index change for the popular Vanguard REIT ETF (NYSE: VNQ) and related index funds. VNQ is the largest exchange traded fund providing exposure to real estate investment trusts. Pennsylvania-based Vanguard, the second-largest U.S. ETF issuer, said...

Vanguard is the second-largest U.S. issuer of exchange traded funds by assets, but its stable of ETFs is small compared to issuers of a similar size. While many large ETF issuers launch several new products per year or have launches numbering in the double digits, Vanguard eschews that strategy....

Rock-bottom pricing in the exchange traded funds universe has long since traversed the emerging markets space. These days, investors can consider a number of low-fee products to gain exposure to developing economies, including the increasingly popular iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (...

When it comes to low fees in the world of exchange-traded funds, many investors think of Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE: SCHW) and Vanguard. Other ETF sponsors have shown a willingness to tussle on costs, but State Street Corp (NYSE: STT)'s State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) unit, the third-largest...

Home to $18.9 billion in assets under management as of the end of August, the Vanguard High Yield Dividend ETF (NYSE: VYM) is one of the largest U.S. dividend exchange-traded funds. While size does matter to some extent with ETFs, there is more to VYM's story. VYM tracks the FTSE High Dividend...

Many of the largest exchange-traded funds focus on U.S. large-cap stocks. For example, the two largest ETFs, and three of the five biggest, track the S&P 500. While the S&P 500 is the benchmark U.S. equity gauge, it holds just over 500 stocks and because of its cap-weighted methodology,...

"Downtown" Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management and CNBC contributor, penned a commentary on what investors can expect to happen to stocks if the market tumbles 20 percent. The last time the S&P 500 index tumbled 20 percent from peak-to-trough happened in October 2011. More...

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...

Low fees on exchange-traded funds are one of the biggest selling points of this asset class and one of the primary reasons investors are continually ditching higher-fee, under-performing actively managed mutual funds. Lower Fees Attract Assets Even better for investors is that ETF issuers are...

One of the biggest robo-advisors has turned into a cyborg. Betterment announced Tuesday that it would add different levels of service plans to its robo-advisor product, the more expensive versions of which give users the option to consult with a human financial advisor. Betterment service...

More than 250 exchange-traded funds launched last year, marking another banner year of new product introductions from the ETF industry. However, as is often par for the course with any year's new ETF launches, not all of 2016's rookie ETFs are finding rapid success. Nor are all of last year...

Investors continued pouring assets into exchange-traded funds last year, sending global ETF assets under management to another all-time on the heels of record asset gathering of $375 billion. Predictably, those trends benefit the largest ETF issuers, including BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares...

One of the primary reasons investors have embraced exchange-traded funds over the years is lower fees relative to actively managed equivalents. ETF issuers continue rewarding that faith with a “race to the bottom” outlook on ETF expenses. Predictably, Vanguard plays a big role in the...

News about fee reductions in the exchange-traded funds industry often has a domino effect. For example, last week BlackRock, Inc.(NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unveiled a significant round of fee cuts for iShares core suite of ETFs. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, launched the iShares core...

On Wednesday, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest asset manager, made waves in the exchange-traded funds industry by announcing lower fees for 15 of its iShares core ETFs. With that news, it can legitimately be said that iShares, the world's largest ETF issuer, is taking the...