Vanguard, the Pennsylvania-based provider of ETFs and mutual funds known for its low management expenses, has further enhanced the cost efficiency on its lineup of sector-specific ETFs. The company announced that the expense ratios on a handful of its sector funds have been cut to 0.19%, making them slightly cheaper than the popular lineup of Sector SPDRs and on par with several FocusShares ETFs. The Vanguard sector ETFs and their expense ratios are now as follows [sign up for the free ETFdb newsletter]: [click to continue…]
ETFs may have been designed with the long-term, buy-and-hold investor in mind, but as the industry has evolved the potential benefits of the exchange-traded structure have been acknowledged and embraced by other types of investors as well. Several ETFs are designed primarily as trading instruments for those who measure holding periods in hours and minutes, [...]
After being hammered during the most recent recession, the technology sector has enjoyed a stellar recovery over the last 18 months, thanks to an impressive string of innovations that includes 3-D television, touchscreen tablet computers, and a new generation of mobile phones that seem to become both more sophisticated and more ubiquitous by the day. [...]
Perhaps now more than at any point in recent memory, Wall Street is keeping a close eye on Washington. In the wake of the recent recession, government regulation and interaction has become a relatively frequent and significant source of risk to various corners of the U.S. economy. First a wave of uncertainty washed over the [...]
Following a year that saw some of the worst performances in recent memory, many asset classes have bounced back in 2009. But some have performed better than others, and as the year draws to a close we take a look at some of the best-performing ETFs. The year’s top gainers include a few of the [...]
The reasons for the rise of the ETF industry are numerous: intraday liquidity, (potentially) superior tax efficiency, and enhanced transparency relative to traditional actively-managed mutual funds have all contributed to the billions of dollars of inflows that these funds have seen in recent years. But the real attraction for most ETF investors is the reduced [...]
