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    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Reimagining index funds

      Can classic cap-weighted indices be improved?

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      Hundreds of funds to be stripped of ESG rating

      Unpublished BlackRock research also reveals thousands more will be downgraded in wide-ranging MSCI shake-up

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      ESG investing
      UK regulator takes aim at index providers over greenwashing

      Financial Conduct Authority criticises ‘widespread failings’ in ESG benchmarks

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      Sustainable ETFs in Europe are often cheaper than mainstream peers

      Price wars have prompted many providers to lower fees

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      Vanguard attracts under-30s to UK retail platform

      Asset manager says about 40% of new clients last year were younger investors

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      Technology sector set to lose more titans in reclassification

      Departures from GICS will raise weighting of Apple and Microsoft in S&P 500 IT sector to nearly 50%

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      US active ETF sales soar while passive counterparts bleed cash

      Investors pulled more than $10bn from index-tracking ETFs in February, while active peers attracted $8.6bn

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      SVB fallout stings exchange traded funds

      ETFs focused on US regional banks hit with steep declines

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      Investors pull near record sums from corporate bond ETFs

      Investment grade and high-yield funds had combined outflows of $8.3bn in February

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Yeah, about that active comeback . . . 

      It’s SPIVA scorecard time

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      ETFs help drive huge growth in India’s investment market

      Launch of new passive equity-linked savings schemes expected to further boost industry, Cerulli says

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Property sector
      Abrdn launches its first European ETF

      Debut comes a day after the group reported ‘one of the toughest investing years in living memory’

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      BlackRock ramps up price war in Australia as it slashes fees

      Challenge to its two main rivals provokes immediate response from BetaShares

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Exchange traded funds
      Rise of European online neobrokers draws regulatory scrutiny

      Evidence shows most investors pursue low-risk objectives and only a minority choose crypto or derivatives offerings

    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Vanguard Group Inc
      Vanguard chief defends decision to pull asset manager out of climate alliance

      Champion of low-cost trackers warns against expecting superior returns from ESG funds and alternative strategies

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Bond ETFs suck liquidity out of market in a crisis, academics say

      Paper contradicts prevailing view that exchange traded funds help find fixed-income buyers and sellers in times of stress

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Stuart Kirk
      Sit back and let the bots, MBAs and consultants slug it out

      A passive portfolio does not care about who wins and why

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Index funds now own more of Tesla than Musk

      Pwned by passives

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Markets InsightDan Taylor
      The investing tide is shifting back towards active strategies

      While the core tenets of passive still make sense, past performance is no guarantee of future results

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Billions pouring into bond ETFs are bright spot for BlackRock

      World’s largest asset manager dominates inflows into products attracting professional investors

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Insider traders use ETFs to front-run M&A deals, academics say

      Research identifies $2.75bn worth of potential ‘shadow trades’ in US between 2009 and 2021

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      News in-depthEmerging market investing
      Should retail investors back emerging markets?

      Experts are divided over whether developing economies represent potential value

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Sustainable US funds suffer brutal fourth quarter in 2022

      The abrupt outflow of $6.2bn contrasts with the $10.2bn inflows in the first three months of last year

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      MSCI revises Adani Group weightings after free float review

      Indian conglomerate under pressure following fraud allegations from short seller

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      What did value stocks *really* do in January?

      Messy methodologies

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