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Actively managed ETFsThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 5:55PMYes, they have MERs, but they're low and worth a look.

A low-cost, easy winnerWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 9:02PMIndex funds were once regarded as the domain of mum and dad investors with neither the know-how nor the money to access the sophisticated managed investments offered to wealthy clients. Not any more.

Steve Rosenbaum: Are we a Curation Nation?Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:15AMThere's a new world order emerging around media and publishing. Producing original content is simply too expensive to sustain alone for all but the largest...

Barclays pension head Tony Broccardo builds dynamic asset allocationSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:13PMFN: Why the move from an asset management house to a pension fund? Broccardo: I started off my career as an investment analyst and strategist at brokerage houses and then moved on to fund management. My clients were large institutional pension funds, based mainly in the US and Holland in those days.

State of Ohio fails to build on northwest Ohio solar successSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:40AMBy JOE VARDON BLADE PROJECTS EDITOR First of three parts Toledo and its northwest Ohio neighbors have missed out on coveted manufacturing jobs in the solar industry because of a failure by state officials to attract companies with tax incentives or create a viable market for solar panels in Ohio, a Blade investigation shows. Since 2007, thousands of those jobs have gone to states where companies ...