Blackrock

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  Municipal bond ETFs – a progress report

  By Rich White  |  May 8, 2013

  While long-term, tax-exempt mutual fund flows have turned negative (outflowing $1.3 billion in April), muni ETFs are on an asset-gathering roll.

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  3 actions for worried investors

  By Joyce Hanson  |  April 16, 2013

  ‘Is the stock market a bubble ready to burst? No,’ say BlackRock’s investment strategists in a spring update

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  Pension funds sue BlackRock on iShares revenues

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  February 4, 2013

  Ohio and Tennessee pension funds claim the company is taking too much investment revenue from its successful iShares ETF offerings.

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  Money fund disclosures not just about need to know

  By Mark Jewell, Associated Press  |  February 1, 2013

  Goldman Sachs on Jan. 9 became the first to post daily values of its money funds. More than a half-dozen other companies have since followed suit or announced similar plans.

• Low interest rates drive insurers out of the bond market

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 25, 2013

  ETFs, emerging markets and infrastructure projects likely to benefit as insurers exit the fixed-income market.

• Money floods into stocks via ETFs on product's 20th anniversary

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 24, 2013

  As more money than ever pours into exchange-traded funds, investors are using increasingly popular and well-established ETFs to buy stocks through passive funds that track equities.

• Stalling a looming boomer retirement disaster

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 21, 2013

  Demographics mean that the not-too-old, but not-young-enough boomer generation has dramatically undersaved for its needs. Advisors can help them catch up.

• ETF assets reach record $191 billion

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  January 11, 2013

  Exchange-traded fund flows reached $191 billion in 2012, surpassing the previous record of $169 billion in 2008 - with $38 billion in inflows in December alone.

• Vanguard cutting more ETF expenses

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  January 4, 2013

  BlackRock also clarifies its expense policy after filings created confusion, and will not be changing iShares' fees.

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  Pensions and guns: America's 'aha' moment, perhaps

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  December 18, 2012

  Yes, it turns out, California's teacher pension fund had hundreds of millions invested indirectly in gun companies. Those investments have changed overnight.