State Street Global Advisors

The ETF Big Three's stranglehold on the industry is finally starting to make some smaller players tap out and could lead to more mergers and acquisitions.

State Street Global Advisors has rolled out its first active ETFs and will focus on tactical allocation.

Guggenheim Partners LLC is among the companies preparing to bid for Deutsche Bank AG's asset-management divisions.

Add Chris Goolgasian to the list of investors bullish on gold — but not for the usual reasons.

Fed used custodians as fronts to funnel cash to besieged money-market funds; 'national emergency'

U.S. exchange-traded funds took in $56.3 billion for the first half of this year, an increase of more than 50.9% from the first half of 2010, according to State Street Global Advisors' mid-year SPDR outlook.

Powers pulled down more in 2010 than bank's chief executive; neither hurting

State Street Corp., the third-largest custody bank, said net income fell 84 percent in the fourth quarter because of costs stemming from job cuts and the sale of securities to bolster capital. Net income dropped to $81 million, or 16 cents a share, from $498 million, or $1, a year earlier, the

BlackRock Inc. is losing its tight grip on the $927 billion U.S. ETF market — potentially costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue — and the competition is just starting to heat up

Index specialist's cheaper funds gaining fast on BlackRock, State Street; 'hard pill to swallow'

Last year's acquisition of Barclays Global Investors pushed BlackRock Inc. to the No. 1 spot in internally managed indexed assets for the 12-month period ended June 30, topping the field with $1.7 trillion, according to Pensions & Investments' annual survey of managers of indexed assets.