“If you’re a mutual fund warehouse, you’re trying to figure out how to grow your business without giving away your secret sauce.” – Nichole Kramer, Manager of ETFs at Alps Inc. Most investors know the story by now. Actively…
It was back to the City of Dreams this week… Ben Carlson, who I actually met on the trip, summed-up my visit rather well: My tally after a quick 36 hours in NYC: -3.5 pieces of pizza -2 bagels…
A coffee table book on ETFs? I’m considering. Until then, here are some of my favorite ETF charts so far in 2019. Enjoy! Previous “ETFs in Pictures”: ETF in Pictures I ETF in Pictures II ETFs – Year in…
Low Cost “There shall be an ETF for every asset class, and it shall be virtually free to own.” – Matt Hougan & Dave Nadig via ETF.com “One of the most attractive elements of ETFs is their cost structure. Because…
I recently chronicled the latest flare-up in the savage ETF fee war. In the span of two weeks, we saw filings for the first “free” ETFs, the launch of the cheapest (for now) ETF, and meaningful fee moves from four…
“If you lower it, they will come.” -Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas I recently declared the ETF fee war officially over: “My sense is the majority of companies offering plain-vanilla ETFs simply don’t have much room to drop fees any further. …
ETFs have democratized investing, but they haven’t democratized financial and ETF literacy. Several years ago, I was meeting a friend at a packed coffee shop when the conversation veered into a slightly heated debate over whether the average person…
The world’s premier ETF conference convened in Hollywood, Florida this past week with pretty much everyone who’s anyone in ETFs attending. Financial advisors, fund companies, and analysts were among the 2,300+ attendees preaching or being preached the ETF gospel. From…
The investment world recently lost a legend when Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle, the father of indexing and low-cost investing, passed away at age 89. Jack had a complicated relationship with ETFs. While he came to appreciate low cost, broad-based index…
There’s an old saying that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”. Please. Check out my 2018 ETF predictions, where I’m going to give myself a little leeway and say I nailed 5 out of 5. You be the…
Another eventful year in ETFs is one best experienced in pictures. If you missed my earlier ETF pictorials, see here: ETFs in Pictures I ETFs in Pictures II Without further ado, let’s look back at the year that was in ETFs. …
Earlier this year, I chronicled “Core Wars”, the ruthless ETF fee competition being waged over the core building blocks of a portfolio. Investors continue plowing money into the lowest cost ETFs, resulting in fund companies battling for those dollars by…
