Online brokerage TD Ameritrade (AMTD) is buying Scottrade in a $4 billion cash-and ... increasingly large number of investors are choosing index funds over stock-picking. In the two-stage deal ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Online brokerage TD Ameritrade is buying Scottrade in a $4 billion cash ... large number of investors are choosing index funds over stock picking. In the two-stage deal announced ...

Scottrade was formerly a go-to platform for ... Instead retail investors sought the relative safety of index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which offer exposure to a basket of companies ...

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FocusShares' funds were benchmarked to indexes licensed by Chicago-based Morningstar Inc. and offered to Scottrade clients commission-free. For example, its Focus Morningstar US Market Index ETF ...

said the addition is “evidence of Scottrade’s commitment to providing complete mutual fund services to the growing registered investment adviser (RIA) community that we serve through Scottrade Advisor ...

The hacked database that Scottrade announced last week included 4.6 million clients’ brokerage account numbers, among other personal details, the company told MarketWatch on Thursday.