Sean O’Hara is the President of RevenueShares Investor Services. He recently took time out of his busy schedule to talk about weighting methodologies, alpha, and more with ETF Database. [click to continue…]
Charles Schwab, one of the world’s best known and largest asset management firms, recently took another step towards finally breaking into the rapidly-expanding ETF industry. Earlier this month, Schwab filed paperwork with the SEC to launch nine ETFs. The proposed funds will have the benefit of the Schwab name (and the tremendous resources that come [...]
As ETFs have become the investment vehicle of choice for an increasing number of asset managers and individual investors, the landscape continues to evolve, sometimes seemingly on a daily basis. The first ETFs to burst onto the scene generally tracked traditional asset classes and indexes. And while these “plain vanilla” funds remain among the most [...]
The exchange-traded fund industry has enjoyed explosive growth in recent years due to the significant advantages of these investment vehicles over traditional mutual funds and individual securities. Perhaps most notably, ETFs offer investors a cost-efficient mechanism to gain access to a diversified basket of securities. ETFs allow investors to create a well-diversified investment portfolio by holding [...]
It’s been almost 17 years since two economists at the University of Chicago, Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, published an attack on the stock price measure of risk known as “beta,” prompting “Beta is Dead” headlines from numerous financial publications. While these obituaries may have been a bit premature (beta is still widely taught in university [...]
