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Last week saw major indices hit 18-month highs with many now comfortably sitting at pre-crash levels.

I was first attracted to ETFs by their simplicity and low costs. As a long-standing advocate of indexing investments in efficient, complex and foreign markets for a variety of good reasons, the advent of the ETF was manna from heaven.

While there are a number of solar ETFs investing in promising projects globally, investors may be better off opting for a more general clean-energy-based fund strategy, writes Martin Morris.

Regulation is laying the foundations for funds of ETFs and greater adoption of these products among IFAs, writes Matthew Craig.

The asset management industry has mixed feelings about the long-term threat exchange traded funds pose to index-hugging unit trusts and Oeics

BlackRock has completed its merger with Barclays Global Investors.

iShares is offering fixed income ex-financials funds in its latest range of nine ETFs to be launched on the London Stock Exchange on Monday.

More and more investors are turning to exchange-traded funds, looking for value in markets or commodities that are thriving in the face of falling global markets. But which funds - and which underpinning markets - are most likely to provide increasingly...

Banking giant Barclays this morning confirmed it is in talks with US manager BlackRock over the sale of its Global Investors arm.

New private equity bidders have emerged for Barclays' iShares business, including BC Partners. Medi...