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Monday, March 18, 4:57 AM Ron Rowland offers additional highlights on the recently expanded lineup of commission-free ETFs over at Fidelity including the following caveat: Funds not held for 30 days by retail investors or 60 days by RIAs using Fidelity as a custodian will be subject to a $7.95 per-trade commission. Some RIAs have complained that the longer holding period directed at them is unfair. Rowland spells out the full list of affected ETFs here. Comment!
Thursday, March 14, 8:44 AM Guggenheim increases expense ratios on 4 ETFs on account of "higher acquired fund fees associated with the S&P benchmarks these ETFs track". The affected funds (with new expense ratio in parentheses) are: RFV (0.40%), RZV (0.38), EWMD and EWSM (0.43%). Two Russell and MSCI ETFs seeing a decline in fees are: EWRS (0.43%) and EWEM (0.70%). 1 Comment
Friday, February 15, 3:41 AM PowerShares expands its Low Volatility ETF suite with 2 new ETFs: S&P MidCap Low Volatility (XMLV) and S&P SmallCap Low Volatility (XSLV). The ETFs come with a 0.25% expense ratios, in line with counterpart IDLV (0.25%) and SPLV (0.25%), and slightly less than EELV (0.29%). Over the recent 1-year period, SPLV returned 16.36%, 68 basis points better than SPY, with an SD of just 8.6% vs. 12.8% for SPY. (pdf) 1 Comment
Monday, October 15, 2012, 4:04 PM After much conjecture, BlackRock (BLK) will indeed slash fees on 6 of its ETPs, including the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), as it tries to regain market share from Vanguard, among others. The company is also reorganizing its ETF sales team, and, for the first time, rolling out TV ads. Comment! [Financials]
Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 2:22 PM S&P announces Valassis Communications (VCI +3.1%) will replace Immucor (BLUD +0.2%) in its S&P 400 MidCap 400 Index (IJH -1.2%) after Thursday's trading. Comment! [On the Move]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 11:57 AM Shares of Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR +4.5%) soar, tracking close to 52-week highs. John Markman of Markman Capital Insight Research likes the stock for technical reasons, viewing the iShares S&P MidCap 400 ETF (IJH +1.3%) (with component GMCR) as set for an upside breakout. 1 Comment [On the Move, Quick Ideas]

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