FSA chief executive Hector Sants has warned against the risks of leveraged ETFs in a comment made before the treasury committee last Tuesday.
State Street Global Advisors has amended its pending Securities and Exchange Commission filing for actively managed ETFs to explicitly exclude the use of derivatives.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named Jennifer McHugh acting director of its Division of Investment Management, to oversee ETFs and other products.
Global X has unveiled an ETF providing exposure to Norway, on NYSE Arca.
Global X is set to launch the world's first ETF designed to track uranium mining companies.
The SEC has charged two employees of Boston-based State Street with misleading investors over exposure to sub-prime debt.
US authorities are clamping down on computerised trading in the wake of the May 6 "flash crash".
The prospect of a double-dip recession in Britain is increasing with every month as consumer confidence dwindles to recession levels, a long-running study shows.
Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs will pay a record $550m fine to settle the SEC's fraud probe into mortgage-backed securities.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put in place new stock trading restrictions to prevent a repeat of the Dow's dramatic plunge earlier this month.