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Category: Exchange Traded Funds

How A Thrifty Investor Could Pay Less For A Mutual Fund Than An ETF

Are ETFs getting a free ride in cost comparisons with mutual funds? A reader believes this to be the case. “I think the [cost] comparison…

Why Robo-Advisers Shun Specialty Funds

Robo-advisers stick to ETFs that track the major capped indexes, steering well clear of anything that looks like a sector-specific specialty fund With investment dollars…

How ETFs Are Created and Redeemed

The main difference between ETFs and other investment vehicles like traditional mutual funds or stocks is the process through which fund shares are created and redeemed. This is called the…

Are Investors Getting More Risk With Passive Bond Funds Than They Bargained For? BIS Asks

The share of passively run mutual funds and bond ETFs of the U.S. bond market has grown to 4.5% in 2017 from 1.2% in 2007,…

Dangerous Side of ETFs

Investors are no better off because of the last two decades’ explosion of exchange-traded funds. In fact, according to soon-to-be-published research, investors’ performance probably would…

Some Concerns Underlying Gold-Backed ETFs

The comments is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Ronan Manley Gold-backed ETFs are a product class that has grown strongly in…

The Biggest ETF Risks

It can be really easy to get caught up in the hype of how great exchange-traded funds (ETF) are. Yet they still come with many of the…