I confess that at first glance I looked at Schwab’s ETF launch, with its promise of no-commission trading in the firm’s own funds, with a slightly jaded eye.
Many funds that close trade with wide spreads and wide premiums/discounts, so a fund closure can sometimes actually be a blessing in disguise.
Schwab’s new ETFs solve one critical problem in the ETF market, but they won’t take over the world. At least not for a while.
Mark Weeks, head of ETF Securities’ new exchange-traded fund platform, speaks to IndexUniverse.eu about some of the platform's inner workings and what it can offer investors.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, as the old saying goes.
New ETFs to launch Nov. 3; commission-free to Schwab customers.
I spent most of the past week in London visiting issuers. The goal of my trip was to get my head around two questions: who is actually using ETFs in Europe? And what is the deal with physically backed and swap-based ETFs?
IndexUniverse.eu speaks to Keshava Shastry, head of markets at iShares Europe, about ways to improve the liquidity and transparency of the ETF secondary market.
It’s one thing to love a product for its innovation, but another to blanket the world with that love without highlighting the real problems.
Looking for spot commodity returns? Stock-based ETFs may actually be a better choice than commodity futures.
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