Investors remained focused on moats and income in April, while plummeting gold prices raised interest in gold-focused ETFs.
The benchmark change is not very significant, but we encourage investors to consider some non-cap-weighted options.
Morningstar's Patty Oey and Dan Rohr and Columbia Acorn's Andreas Waldburg-Wolfegg offer best practices for globe-trotting investors who must navigate choppy waters in today's market.
Tactical strategies dominate investor interest right now.
As the market shrugged off new eurozone worries in March, investors remained focused on finding cheap, wide-moat stocks and income-producing investments.
We look beyond the market-cap-weighted giants in search of a better beta among this growing crop of exchange-traded funds.
Investors continued their search for income and equity bargains last month.
Some new funds may help protect against the long-term effects of quantitative easing. Others offer access to low-cost baskets of emerging-markets stocks and high-dividend-paying companies.
Some new funds may help protect against the long-term effects of quantitative easing. Others offer access to low-cost baskets of emerging-markets stocks and high-dividend-paying companies.
Emerging markets drove ETF flows in January.