Archive for August, 2008
ETFs make strides in marketplace
Friday, August 8th, 2008Hybrid product. Offers more freedom than mutual funds
PAUL DELEAN, The Gazette
Published: 10 hours ago
In recent years, exchange-traded funds have made significant inroads in the Canadian investment marketplace, where they’re seen as a way of adding diversification to portfolios at relatively low cost. To explain what they are and how they function, we contacted Heather Pelant, head […]
In brief: Study tracks mutual-fund companies’ responses to shareholder proposals
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Funds show teeth
Mutual-fund companies voted in favor of nearly 40 percent of shareholder proposals, according to a study by the Investment Company Institute of more than 3.5 million proxy votes made by 160 of the largest fund companies in the 12 months that ended June 30.
At the same time, company boards opposed more than 99 […]
