Dimensional Fund Advisors

A regulatory overhaul is potentially looming—and the ETF market is waiting with bated breath. According to Morningstar’s most recent mid-year ETF guide, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may approve hybrid ETF-mutual fund share-class designs as early as the second half of...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have exploded in popularity since they were introduced in the 1990s. Like a mutual fund, one ETF invests in hundreds of stocks across various sectors. Some mutual funds and ETFs specialize in certain sectors like small cap stocks or consumer staples. Unlike mutual funds...

Small-cap stocks and the related exchange traded funds are springing back to life after lagging to start 2017. Over the past 90 days, the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index have each returned more than 6 percent. Perhaps the John Hancock Multifactor Small Cap ETF (NYSE: JHSC)...

Amid the bevy of exchange-traded products that came to market in the United States last year, one of the more interesting themes was the initial forays into the business by some well-known money managers. In September, asset management giant John Hancock became the latest big name in the financial...

Last month, asset management giant John Hancock became the latest big name in the financial services industry to enter the exchange-traded funds arena, doing so with six funds sub-advised by Dimensional Fund Advisors. Hancock's new ETF lineup is comprised of six funds – four sector...

Mario Gabelli recently filed a couple of Schedule 13D forms with the SEC, disclosing increases in his activist positions in micro-cap companies Blyth, Inc. (NYSE: BTH) and Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JCS). Below is a look at these companies and the transactions that Gabelli made. Blyth...