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  • July 11, 2013

Fee war redux? State Street ETFs undercut iShares and Vanguard

Russell 1000, 2000 and 3000 funds cheapest on the market

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  • April 29, 2013

BlackRock forming RIA council

The largest money manager in the world is turning to registered investment advisers for help. BlackRock Inc.,…

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  • April 10, 2013

Fear rising with rates

Bond market sell-off likely a question of when, not if, and investors 'have no idea what's about to happen'

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Fidelity heats up ETF battle, but some advisers grouse

Fido late last week substantially expanded its roster of commission-free ETFs. But some advisers are already criticizing the move. Jason Kephart reports.

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  • March 21, 2013

Fidelity doubles down on free ETFs

Will offer twice as many commission-free program with iShares

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  • March 8, 2013

Koesterich on markets: Expect some madness in March

There is trouble overseas in the eurozone, and here at home, Congress is busy squabbling over the deficit.

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  • March 3, 2013

BlackRock’s Koesterich: Expect madness in March

One suggestion for wary financial advisers is to seek out Treasuries

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  • February 15, 2013

iShares is rethinking index contracts

BlackRock Inc.'s iShares is reviewing its contracts with index providers in light of The Vanguard Group Inc.'s switch to flat fees for licensing indexes.

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  • February 10, 2013

Lawsuit against iShares puts spotlight on securities lending by ETFs

Exchange-traded funds' securities lending is back in the spotlight because of two pension funds that want a bigger cut of the profits.

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  • February 3, 2013

iShares head talks inflows

Mark Wiedman had a lot to be happy about last year. During his first full year as…

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  • December 21, 2012

INsider: Emerging markets ETFs just got complicated

Largest fund switches indexes; meanwhile, alternative choice adds alternative

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  • December 21, 2012

Stock ETFs steal the show in September

Best month of sales in more than three years, thanks to a rush into U.S. large-caps

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  • December 16, 2012

With ETFs, commission-free doesn’t mean cost-free

The Charles Schwab Corp. made a big splash three years ago when it offered the first exchange-traded funds…

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  • December 2, 2012

BlackRock’s Doll finds new home at Nuveen

The retirement of Bob Doll, former chief equity strategist at BlackRock Inc., turned out to be greatly exaggerated.

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Bob Doll: What could derail bull market run

The headline news last week was the US Federal Reserve’s announcement of a new round of quantitative easing…

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  • November 26, 2012

Changing of the Vanguard? BlackRock’s ETF dominance slipping

Losing market share to index-fund specialist; 'we are not happy ...'

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  • November 6, 2012

ETF fee war heats up some more as Schwab fires back

Brokerage lowers its charges in challenge to Vanguard; BlackRock on the same trail

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  • November 2, 2012

Behind BlackRock’s latest salvo in ETF price … contretemps

Fee cuts are part innovation, part marketing brilliance; don't call it a war, though

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  • October 21, 2012

BlackRock combines fund sales teams

BlackRock Inc. last week combined its mutual fund and exchange-traded-fund sales teams to create the largest sales force…

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Our real benchmark is responsibility

Aphrase in vogue in corporate circles these days is “measure or be measured.” Financial services is a business…