ETF Professor

Post-Labor Day trading brought solid showings by the major U.S. indexes as stocks posted decent gains during a holiday-shortened week, but September's reputation for being a volatile month for equities could be on full display this week. One of the most widely anticipated Federal Reserve...

The value factor is one of the most widely followed investment factors, but for investors in mutual funds and exchange traded funds, a fund's performance and its fees are major factors in determining just how good of a value investors are getting. Investors in actively managed value mutual...

For most Americans, May is little more than the prelude to summer. In addition to the longer days, warmer weather and summer blockbuster hoopla, May is also a time when stocks begin to suffer. "May really starts the worst six months of the year to own stocks," said Todd Shriber, Benzinga's own...

Alright, so this is a bit of shameless self-promotion on a Friday afternoon, but I was fortunate enough to have been invited by BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) to compete in the fifth edition of iShares Fund Frenzy, basically March Madness with ETFs instead of college hoops teams. Kudos to my colleague...