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At Deadline

January 27, 2012 - State Street to Develop Actively Managed ETFs; Investors (Again) Lose Faith in U.S. Equity Funds; Citi, Research Affiliates Expanding Bond Indices

At Deadline

January 23, 2012 - SEC OKs NYSE Merger; e ETFs Grow 20.6%; Investors Venture Back Into Stock Mutual Funds

The Sweet, Short LifeOf Synthetic ETFs

January 23, 2012 - You've heard of structured products. These largely were complex securities based on lots of streams of cash in underlying loans whose flows were not well predicted. There was a credit crisis associated with them in 2008.

PIMCO: Total Return ETF Takes Off March 1

January 16, 2012 - Long-anticipated PIMCO TOtal Return ETF debuts.

BlackRock Lists Eight ETFs on BATS Market

January 16, 2012 - At Deadline

New Morningstar Ratings Dig a Little Deeper

January 9, 2012 - New Morningstar analyst qualitative ratings look toward the future.

Mutual Funds' Gains Lowest Since Credit Crisis

January 9, 2012 - U.S. stock funds were hit with $125 billion of redemptions in 2011.

The Word of the Year Is ... Volatility

January 2, 2012 - At Deadline

2011: The Year of Living Cautiously

January 2, 2012 - As volatilty became the watchword in 2011, investors became paralyzed with caution and fear.

There's Gold in Fixed Income Funds. And Gold.

December 6, 2011 - Lots of attention has been paid this year to the fact that investors are yanking billions after billions out of mutual funds that invest long-term in domestic stocks. June: $20.4 billion out. July: $20.2 billion out. August: $26.3 billion out. In the last four reported weeks: November 2: $3.3 billion out. November 9: $3.7 billion out. November 16: $135 million out. November 22: $3.7 billion out. …

2012: The Year of Recovery. Again.

December 6, 2011 - It's been trumpeted before. What happens now? Or, in 2013.

Indexing the So-Called Handicapped

December 4, 2011 - PHOENIX, Ariz. – He blew right by me. On one leg. It was Sunday morning. Mountainview Road. I was headed to Fountain Hills, to cycle its 10 and 18 percent grade hills. That’s 10 and 18 feet up, for every 100 feet forward. Steep. But this was on the flats. And I didn’t even see him coming. …

Five Biggest Myths of Investing in Emerging Markets

November 21, 2011 - Five Biggest Myths of Investing in Emerging Markets

Globally Active Funds Get Voice at ICI: Q&A With Dan Waters

October 24, 2011 - As Funds Go Global, ICI Steps In With New Trade Organization

Russell Tries to Repeat its Success, This Time in Europe

October 17, 2011 - Russell, Chi-X Europe Partner on New Set of Indexes