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Defined-maturity funds offer traditional fixed-income interest payments.

These double-digit returns came at a price lower than the rest of the sector.

The mutual funds and ETFs that ranked at the bottom of the sector still benefited from a “long-running bull market,” an expert says.

The Invesco QQQ Trust dropped as much as 0.6% after Google’s parent company reported first-quarter sales below Wall Street estimates.

The average expense ratio among the top-performers is 40 basis points higher than the average.

Eleven of the 14 dividend-focused ETFs in existence 10 years ago beat a plain vanilla index fund.

Home to more than $249 billion, these funds have expense ratios more than 20 basis points higher than the industry average.

Portfolios constructed with companies betting on industrial and social transformations are besting rivals.

The funds include a wide range of offerings from emerging markets to precious metals, multi-strategy and REITs.

The firm says clients can achieve similar risk-return exposures and long-term returns with a well-diversified portfolio.

Health category funds dominated the list, making up for well over half of the group’s assets.

Disappointing revenue and profit forecasts from Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet helped push the Nasdaq further into a correction.

The deal is the latest consolidation in the industry, which is experiencing pressure on revenues as investors flock to low-fee, passive index and ETFs.

The deal to purchase the asset manager could be announced in a matter of weeks.

The S&P index of 18 asset management firms and custody banks is down nearly 11% this year, compared with a gain of more than 8% for the broad S&P 500.

Fees were nearly half the price of the top-performing active funds.

Forget bond ladders. Laddering defined-maturity exchange traded funds may be a safer fixed-income strategy for clients.

That’s the sum companies are expected to bring onshore due to the Trump administration’s tax overhaul.

Funds with disproportionate exposure to FANG stocks are up big in 2018.

The flood of new money may be evidence that investor angst is confined to the highest-flying tech segment and not the industry at large.