Sentences with phrase «fee war»

The rising importance of expense ratios could be reflective of the spreading fee wars in the ETF space and an accompanying rise in investor awareness of costs.

The first is they represent what Horizons calls «the latest salvo in the Canadian ETF fee war.»

If the small company has any kind of social media presence, it can leverage that into a larger «David vs. Goliath» narrative that grows both the brand identity and a legal fees war chest.

CNBC's Bob Pisani sits down with Invesco Powershares Capital Management CEO Dan Draper to talk about active vs. passive management, ETF fee wars and socially responsible investing.

«The fee wars will remain in full swing,» Nadig says.

«Though we have not believed other moves were part of a fee war, SSGA is heading us down a path of no retreat.»

This morning, State Street launched a dramatic new salvo in the fee war with its SPDR Portfolio ETFs, a suite of 15 existing ETFs repackaged with rock - bottom expense ratios, some the lowest in their class.

Direct indexing could change things up, putting more focus on the way an index is constructed and how individual portfolios are optimized to that index, and less focus on issuer brands, the fee war and the ins and outs of ETF trading.

Interestingly, as the fee war in index fund wages on, it may be the index makers that ultimately decide just how low expense ratios can go.

This is particularly true among S&P 500 index funds, which have engaged in a fee war over the last year.»

Meanwhile, ETF leader Blackstone says it sees a secular shift to exchange - traded funds and top asset managers are engaged in a fee war in a race to the bottom on low ETF fees.

State Street Global Advisors» massive price cuts and low - cost ETF introductions this week have reset the bar in the ETF fee wars.

As the slim to non-existent differences in the prices of the three funds above suggests, focus on ETF costs has intensified dramatically in the past few years, leading many journalists and analysts to characterize all the jockeying for bragging rights to the cheapest funds as a «fee war» of sorts.

That said, Vanguard steadfastly insists it isn't part of any fee war, as it must lower fees as its funds gather assets because of its at - cost business structure.