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Economic Indicators
Despite poor near-term performance, the outlook for the index is positive
March 20, 2018
3 min read
Market Insights
Despite relatively large equity returns last year, passive management didn’t emerge as the management winner in 2017. About 63% of U.S. funds underperformed the index last year, finds the SPIVA U.S. scorecard. Read: U.S. stock hits and misses However, on an asset-weighted basis, which better reveals active management, all U.S. large-cap funds returned about 22.8%, […]
By Staff |March 19, 2018
Products
Sun Life Global Investments (Canada) Inc. and Excel Funds Management Inc. are closing two Excel ETFs with the goal of refining the firm’s ETF strategy. Effective at close of business on or about May 30, Sun Life Global Investments and Excel will close Excel Global Balanced Asset Allocation ETF and Excel Global Growth Asset Allocation […]
2 min read
Advisor's Edge
PMs share insights from their playbooks
March 16, 2018
10 min read
South Korea’s emerging market depends largely on trade
By Mark Burgess |March 16, 2018
7 min read
Is this company the lowest-cost producer?
9 min read
Accounting issues cloud analysis
By Al and Mark Rosen |March 16, 2018
Signed on March 8, the deal connects Canada with more regions
By Staff |March 16, 2018
Minimize the risk of not achieving targeted replacement income
By Mark Yamada |March 16, 2018
Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. is resuming new subscriptions for units of the BetaPro S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures Inverse ETF. The ETF trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HVI. When markets dropped in early February and turned volatile, Horizons halted trading on HVI. It suspended new subscriptions of fund units […]
By Staff |March 14, 2018
1 min read
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