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The New ETF Darlings – US-FOREX.US
After the stock market lost 37% last year, retail investors have developed a taste for comparatively stodgy fixed-income assets, especially exchange-traded funds. Assets under management by fixed-income ETFs climbed 47%, to 83 billion, this year, according to Barclay’s data. That gain outpaced the 17% jump in assets held by all U.S. ETFs.“Some people are feeling… »
Vanguard To Debut Bond Index Funds – US-FOREX.US
With bond markets soaring and investors piling cash into fixed-income funds, the mammoth mutual fund manager Vanguard unveiled seven new bond index funds on Tuesday. Expected to open to investors by the end of the year, the funds track a range of corporate and government bond indexes from Barclays Capital. One tracks mortgage-backed securities. As… »
T. Rowe Price Recovers – US-FOREX.US
T. Rowe Price, the celebrated Baltimore mutual fund company known as a pioneer in growth investing and also as a low cost shop with a good reputation for shareholder stewardship reports earnings Friday and business looks good. T. Rowe took in 2.3 billion in new assets in April and May. Analysts are forecasting nearly 5… »