Who won the zero-fee ETF war? It looks like no one
October 10, 2019 at 11:33 AM EDT
Before the big discount brokers Schwab, E-Trade and TD Ameritrade went to zero-commission trading, zero-fee ETFs hit the market from financial firms trying to challenge the index fund giants Vanguard and BlackRock. But so far, the zero-fee ETF experiment looks like a failure.