Also adds ETFs from iShares, Direxion and others
Closures occur as the company puts more emphasis on factor investing.
High-yield and low-duration strategies will seek specific investment outcomes.
Their questions involve how to fit exchange-traded funds into portfolios.
Exchange-traded fund that tracks short-term junk bonds has lost $1.5 billion over the last two weeks.
For advisers, checking monthly flows for stock funds might be a useful exercise.
Pricing transparency and the shift toward fee-based advice are benefiting exchange-traded funds, BlackRock executive says.
Launches of new equity exchange-traded funds have slowed as investors crowd into just a few products.
Trade reform, trade tiffs and strong dollar are all benefiting domestically oriented small-caps
But the gap between the top two and the rest is growing.
Regulators are cutting the red tape involved, but firms say they can still help with setting up fund infrastructure.
The world's biggest bond ETF tracks a benchmark that contains 9,917 bonds, many of them illiquid.
Only a few see big inflows; even Vanguard's offerings get little love from investors.
Demand at short end could ease funding costs and make stocks look better by comparison.
About $5.7 billion poured into ETFs tracking the S&P 500 last week
Only a few see big inflows; even Vanguard's offerings get little love from investors.
More than $14 billion flowed into exchange-traded debt funds in April.
Unless Howard Present pays $12.4 million in penalties, interest and disgorgement, he can't be reinstated
Jim Ross of State Street says exchange-traded funds that use leverage are too dangerous for retail investors.
Q1 growth pace of 0.5% was the lowest since 2015
