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Knight Boosts Options Staff With Six Traders From Newedge
February 23rd, 2010 
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Comments OffBroker Review: optionsXpress
February 15th, 2010 Before You Invest Publicly traded optionsXpress (OXPS) is one of the more mature online brokerages.
It consistently ranks highly in broker comparisons conducted by Barron’s and others. However, we are not too concerned with outside ratings. We are more concerned with how optionsXpress may or may not fit with your trading objectives and style.
Let’s take a look at who may benefit the most from opening an optionsXpress account and who may find better luck elsewhere.
Target Audience
The target audience for optionsXpress seems to be active investors who are looking to diversify their portfolio across a broad range of investing products.
For instance, if you are a trader who places a few options and futures trades per month while holding some longer-term investments in stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds, you would be an ideal candidate to open and optionsXpress account, because you can manage everything within one account.
Of course, optionsXpress or any other broker will say that they would love to work with any investor, regardless of their holdings, but the product offering and commission and fee structure seem to benefit active to semi-active traders who want to invest in a broad range of products.
Products Available at optionsXpress
The product lineup at optionsXpress is one of the broker’s strong points.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Active Traders, Barron, Better Luck, Etfs, Exchange Traded Funds, Fee Structure, Hassle, High Commissions, Mutual Funds, Online Brokerages, Option Commissions, Options And Futures, Optionsxpress, Oxps, Product Flexibility, Product Offering, Strong Points, Target Audience, Term Investments, Trades Comments OffNew margin requirements for leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
December 1st, 2009 Before You Invest Effective
Schwab rolls out free-trade ETFs
November 3rd, 2009 Before You Invest At a press conference in New York City Monday, Charles Schwab unveiled eight new exchange-traded funds, the first of the brokerage’s Schwab-branded ETFs. The big news: For these select ETFs, Schwab has waived the commission typically charged when you buy or sell shares of an ETF or stock.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Bettinger, Charles Schwab, Charles Schwab Corp, Emerging Market, Emerging Markets, Etf, Etfs, Exchange Traded Funds, Expense Ratio, Expense Ratios, Free Trades, Investment Management Services, New Exchange, Peter Crawford, Senior Vice President, Small Cap, Transaction Costs, U S Stock Market, Vanguard, Video Feed No Comments »Barclays rolls out ETF-based charitable-giving program
October 6th, 2009 Before You Invest Donors will be able to use 25 different iShares offerings to customize their investments
Barclays Global Investors has launched the iShares Charitable Giving Program, which offers clients access to donor-advised funds using pools of its exchange-traded funds.
It’s thought to be the first time that a major fund firm has offered a charitable-giving program using only ETFs, said Eileen Heisman, president and chief executive of the National Philanthropic Trust, a national donor-advised fund program and charity with $660 million in assets under management.
“To my knowledge, it’s very unique among [large financial] firms,” said Ms.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Assets Under Management, Barclays Global Investors, Charitable Causes, Donor Advised Fund, Donor Advised Funds, Endowment Foundation, Exchange Traded Funds, Financial Advisers, Heisman, Industry Officials, Investment Account, Investment Firms, Investment Pools, John Tobin, Michael Latham, Minimum Investment, National Philanthropic Trust, Natural Fit, Philanthropic Legacy, Philanthropic Projects No Comments »Leveraged ETF’s May Not Be Suitable For All Investors
October 3rd, 2009 Before You Invest ProFunds Group is warning investors that some of its inverse and leveraged mutual funds mightn’t be suitable for all investors and should be used only by knowledgeable investors.
The Bethesda, Md., asset manager added the strong language in a key descriptive filing it made with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the past week.
Michael Sapir, chief executive of ProFund Advisors, said, “We have always placed a high value on educating investors and providing full and complete disclosure, as we have in adapting our disclosure to the new summary prospectus format.” Mutual-fund companies are beginning to adopt new rules authorizing summary prospectuses, which seek to simplify key investment information.
Earlier this year, ProFunds, the largest provider of leveraged exchange-traded funds, revised risk descriptions in prospectuses for its ProShares ETFs, adding additional details on returns to help show the effects of compounding.
Suitability Issue
That move came as regulatory concerns were raised about the suitability of inverse and leveraged exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.
Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Additional Details, Asset Manager, Bethesda Md, Daily Basis, Derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds, Investment Results, Knowledgeable Investors, Leveraged Etf, Mutual Fund Companies, Profund Advisors, Profunds, Proshares, Prospectus Format, Prospectuses, Regulatory Concerns, Sapir, Securities And Exchange, Securities And Exchange Commission, Suitability No Comments »Grail set to kick off active ETFs
October 2nd, 2009 Before You Invest Trading will begin tomorrow on four actively managed exchange-traded funds launched by Grail Advisors LLC.
Grail Advisors will serve as the lead manager of the four funds: RP Growth ETF (RPX), RP Focused Large Cap Growth ETF (RWG), RP Technology ETF (RPQ), and RP Financials ETF (RFF), according to a statement released today.
Deutsche Bank to Liquidate Oil ETN (DXO)
September 9th, 2009 Before You Invest Posted in Finance Fraud Tags: Action Letters, Adequate Exposure, Barclays Global Investors, Cftc Regulations, Commodity Etfs, Commodity Exchange, Commodity Futures Contracts, Commodity Futures Trading, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Commodity Positions, Commodity Services, Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index, Diversified Group, Dxo, Excess Return, Exchange Traded Funds, Futures Trading Commission, Gsci, Ishares, Market Exposure, Powershares, Wheat Futures No Comments »SEC, FINRA, CFTC join debate about controversial ETFs
August 23rd, 2009 Before You Invest Industry insiders are concerned that debate about nontraditional exchange-traded funds could harm the broader ETF sector. The Securities and Exchange Commission teamed up with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to alert investors about risks associated with leveraged ETFs.
Vanguard registers for seven bond ETFs
August 11th, 2009 Before You Invest Some see filing as a challenge to iShares, as four of the funds would be cheaper
Vanguard today filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer seven new bond index exchange traded funds in what some industry experts believe to be a direct challenge to iShares, the dominant fixed-income ETF provider.
Three of the ETFs are expected to invest in U.S.
Posted in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Finance Fraud Tags: Barclays, Barclays Global Investors, Barclays Ishares, Bond Fund, Bond Index Funds, Corporate Bonds, Daniel Wiener, E Mail, Exchange Traded Funds, Expense Ratio, Expense Ratios, Malvern Pa, Morningstar, Mortgage Backed Securities, New Bond, Newton Mass, Securities And Exchange Commission, Treasuries, U S Treasury, Vanguard Group No Comments »
