By Douglas Albo: With the markets entering a seasonally more difficult period and the overseas markets looking more and more unsettled, I thought this might be a good time to review the high yielding global option-income (also called covered-call or buy/write) closed-end funds…

Without those funds from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, Greece could run out of cash to meet its national debt interest payments as early as next month. The country would then have no option but to default. Most analysts expect that a default would be a prelude…

LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - Hedge funds made small profits in April, according to a new performance index, even as global shares sank amidst the market fears over Spain's deepening debt crisis and...

Investors ploughed a record amount into 'index tracker' funds last month as the appetite for cheaper investments grows apace.

It's hard to find fault with index funds: Low costs and broad diversification make them the surest bet for the long run. But by definition index funds are no better than average, and let's face it: Sometimes you want to win a race.

Betsy the Cow knows something that most investors don’t, and it’s the reason she buys index funds. Betsy knows that the milk she and her friends produce gets shipped to different resellers, where it is packaged in different containers and sold at different prices. But it’s all the same milk,…

Charles Schwab Corp, one of the largest U.S. brokerages, is making strong headway on its recently released low-cost 401 plan that is comprised entirely of index mutual funds, the company's chief executive ...

By Michael Johnston:As the ETF universe has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, investors now have tools at their disposal to accomplish almost every objective. From plain vanilla stock and bond indexes to hyper-targeted regional and sector funds, there are ETFs to bet on…

Many of the simplest index funds exchange traded funds attempt to capture the broad market’s performance. One of the main points of indexing is that beating the market most of the time is difficult, and ...

Think futures trading should be left to hedge funds? Well, individual investors can enjoy several advantages by trading E-mini index futures.

By Morningstar: By Samuel Lee The exchange-traded funds rolling out these days aren't the quintessential index funds of yesteryear but are often active strategies themselves. Many are seductive--who doesn't want more yield or lower volatility? You might have plumped money in one…

The Stock Exchange of Thailand will launch foreign index exchange-traded funds in the second half of the year.

Filed under: Investing, Market NewsThe average American consumer is 45% poorer because of the financial crisis, according to a survey released by the Federal Reserve. How did this happen? Consumers suffered losses due to the falling values of their homes, cars and financial assets like…

Filed under: Investing, ETFs, Investing Basics The investment world's love affair with all things ETF did not wane in 2010, as their share of the market rose to $940 billion in assets, held in more than 1,000 exchange-traded funds. There was plenty of excitement: Nearly 200 new distinct…

Filed under: Investing, VideoFor investors, "buy and hold" has always been considered the sensible way to invest in the market. The idea -- put your money into stocks, index funds or mutual funds and over the years, you will earn an average of about 8%. But whacky market gyrations over the…

ETFs and index funds are contributing to higher correlations in the market and making it more difficult for investors to diversify their portfolios, according to an academic paper.“The increased commonality ...

It's one of those eternal truths. Just as you can be sure that daffodils and forsythia will blossom this time of year, you can be sure that mutual fund investors will collectively act like blooming idiots by doing the wrong thing with their money. Take the recently completed quarter, in…

So far in 2012 investors would have done better putting their money in a low-cost stock index fund than the average hedge fund.

A U.S. senator is drafting legislation that would ban commodity index funds and ETFs on concerns the passively managed vehicles are driving oil and gasoline prices higher, according to a report.Supply ...

Lawmakers should ban commodity index funds and exchange-traded funds, a coalition of consumer and public interest groups said on Thursday, blaming the speculative investment vehicles for surging oil and ...

Technology funds soared 20.3% the past three months, vs. 12% for the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index and 13% for the average stock fun ...

European stocks gained in early trade on Friday as euro-area finance ministers meet to discuss boosting the region`s rescue funds and investors await a report that may show spending by American consumers increased. U.S. index futures climbed and Asian shares fluctuated. UK`s…

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The Thai bourse continues to defy a storm of negative factors, showing no let-up in the inflow of foreign funds that has now pushed the main index to a near 16-year high.

By Felix Salmon: Bloomberg and Fortune had weirdly competing stories Wednesday on the subject of Warren Buffett’s “million-dollar bet“. The bet’s duration is ten years from January 1, 2008; Buffett is betting a million dollars that the S&P 500 will outperform a fund of hedge…

India-centric foreign institutional investors, especially exchangetraded and index funds, may be forced to buy ONGC shares over the next couple of months.