Game Change! Dividend Investor Plays ETF
If I weren’t a dividend investor who enjoys the hunt of picking stocks and building my own dividend portfolio, my money would…
iShares core ETFs
iShares Adds Four Allocation ETFs to Core Lineup
BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) said Monday that its iShares unit, the world’s largest issuer of exchange traded funds, added four ETFs to its…
Indexology®: Your Core Portfolio
In my post on ETFs in the Core in May, I mentioned that the goal of most investors is to manage risk,…
New Dividend ETFs Offers Core Growth
An increasing number of dividend-focused exchange traded funds boast of being bastions of consistently rising payouts. How that dividend growth is achieved…
Core Status Lifts a Dividend ETF
Exchange traded funds frequently change names and underlying indices, but the alteration that many investors relish is an expense ratio reduction. That…
An Emerging Markets ETF to the Core
The iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSEArca: IEMG) debuted in October 2012 as part of the first wave of iShares core…
BlackRock: Your Core Portfolio: Sample Strategies for the Long Haul
Institutional investors have long been using index investments at the core of their portfolio. As explained in previous posts, core represents the…
Core ETF for Investors, but Traders Still Love EEM
It has been nearly two years since BlackRock’s (NYSE: BLK) iShares, the world’s largest ETF issuer, introduced its first batch of core…
A Look at How Some Investors Use ETFs
Whether it is at the institutional level, among registered investment advisors or do-it-yourself investors, use of exchange traded funds is increasing. Equally…
A Mid-Cap ETF to the Core
Due to compelling valuations and amid expectations of robust economic growth for the second quarter and second half, some analysts are bullish…
Dividends to the Core With This ETF
After a slight name change and noticeable fee reduction, the iShares Core High Dividend ETF (NYSEArca: HDV) recently became one of the…
A New ETF Route to Europe
This has been a good year for Europe ETFs. Mounting signs of economic recovery in the U.K. and Eurozone coupled with increasingly…
BlackRock: Your Core Portfolio: How to choose the right ETFs
In my post on ETFs in the Core in May, I mentioned that the goal of most investors is to manage risk,…
New iShares ETF Targets Dividend Consistency
BlackRock’s (NYSE: BLK) iShares unit, the world’s largest issuer of exchange traded funds, doubled the size of its already successful core suite…