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As has been widely documented, the healthcare sector, the S&P 500's third-largest sector weight, is struggling this year. The Health Care SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLV), the largest healthcare exchange-traded fund by assets, is down nearly 4 percent this year and is in position to notch its first...

BlackRock,Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest asset manager, delivered an early holiday present to investors by unveiling another round of fee reductions on some of its exchange-traded funds. The most recent batch of fee cuts pertain to some iShares smart beta ETFs. iShares Smart Beta ETF...

Earlier this year, the low volatility factor was the object of much attention and adulation, and that affection was not limited to U.S.-focused exchange-traded funds. iShares EEMV The iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol Emerging Markets ETF, iShares Inc. (NYSE: EEMV) also caught investors' attention, as...

As the smart or strategic beta landscape has evolved in recent years, there have been plenty of estimates, forecasts and studies calling for exponential growth for those exchange traded funds that follow fundamentally-weighted indexes or adhere to index methodologies beyond weighting by market...

Anniversaries for exchange-traded funds are not always worth celebrating, but with the iShares Edge MSCI Min Vol USA ETF (iShares Trust (NYSE: USMV)) and some of its iShares low volatility stablemates, this is an anniversary worth celebrating. Half A Decade Of ETF Success For These 4 The iShares...

News about fee reductions in the exchange-traded funds industry often has a domino effect. For example, last week BlackRock, Inc.(NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unveiled a significant round of fee cuts for iShares core suite of ETFs. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, launched the iShares core...

The energy sector is the best-performing segment in the S&P 500 this year. Additionally, Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), the two largest U.S. oil companies, are two of the just 14 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average that are up at least 10...

Low volatility, for myriad reasons, is the investment factor stealing most of the limelight this year, but the quality factor is not too far behind. The iShares Edge MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (NYSE: QUAL) is clearly one of the exchange-traded funds benefiting from the flight to quality. While...

Major India exchange-traded funds are still lagging the MSCI Emerging Markets Index on a year-to-date basis, but some market observers believe stocks in Asia's third-largest economy have the ability to play catch-up with a run that could extend into next year. ETFs such as the iShares S&P...

Some investors know about the “Dogs of the Dow” strategy, which advocates buying the 10 highest-yielding of the blue-chip index at the end of the year and hold those names for a year. Historical data suggest the strategy works. So, with the fourth quarter here, now may be a good time...

On Wednesday, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest asset manager, made waves in the exchange-traded funds industry by announcing lower fees for 15 of its iShares core ETFs. With that news, it can legitimately be said that iShares, the world's largest ETF issuer, is taking the...

In a move that will be felt across the exchange traded funds industry, particularly in Pennsylvania, BlackRock Inc.'s (NYSE: BLK) iShares unveiled a significant round of fee cuts for iShares core suite of ETFs. BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, launched the iShares core ETFs...

Advisors and investors are piling into fixed income exchange-traded funds this year, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming years as more institutional investors turn to bond ETFs. Through the first half of 2016, about $40 billion flowed into bond ETFs, with approximately half of that...

Investors are embracing emerging markets exchange-traded funds again in significant fashion, and that is good news for BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK)'s iShares unit. The world's largest ETF issuer, iShares is also home to the ETF industry's largest stable of emerging markets ETFs. A Whole Herd...

When it comes to Vanguard and exchange-traded funds' assets, the trajectory, more often than not, is up. Over the past several years, Vanguard has usually been no worse than the second-best asset gatherer in the ETF business. The Pennsylvania-based company ascended to being the second-largest U.S....