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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… »
A Retail Revival – US-FOREX.US
Here’s an interesting figure from analysts at RBC Capital Markets: 65,000. That’s the number of new stores U.S. retailers plan to open in the next two years and it’s not that far down from when the financial crisis started. Back in October, according to a report by RBC analyst Rich Moore, retailers planned about 72,000… »