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New positions were created in hedge funds, ETFs and structured product development in Europe the Middle East and Africa.

There are serious risks in banking on a small fund that's so heavily concentrated in a corner of China's tech sector.

Thematic ETFs have proliferated as funds started in the last six months looking to trade on political agendas, such as tax reform and infrastructure spending.

Do they really deliver better risk-adjusted returns? A Morningstar panel said yes, but contributing writer Allan Roth disagrees.

As investors assess the winners and losers from the Trump administration's policies and digest mixed economic data, they aren't endorsing all shares.

The company is basing its pricing on the idea that not all buyers of its iShares products are the same, and the strategy seems to be working.

A key measure of the yield for the fund's underlying index plunged by nearly 3 percentage points on March 22.

The iShares unit has had other departures in recent years.

Millennials have placed 36% of their investable assets into ETFs, which is considerably higher than the 23% allocation on average by all other investors.

A single percentage point increase in ETF ownership has demonstrable effects on an individual stock, researchers said.

Most of the inflow came in the second half of the month after the Fed laid out an unexpectedly dovish rate-hike outlook, Russia's central bank said.

The firm's success bucks the long-held premise that investing in developing markets requires active managers responding to sudden shifts in political risk.

The new offerings could boost returns to investors by 50 basis points, according to a study.

Motif’s Hardip Walia discusses attitudes of investors and the inadequacies with contemporary environmental, social and corporate governance investing.

The GDP growth spread between emerging-market and developed-market nations is expected to widen in 2017 to the most in three years.

The new move amounts to an estimate of $7 million cumulative savings. Plus; other launches.

The new move amounts to an estimate of $7 million cumulative savings. Plus; other launches.

At stake is more than $400 billion that Citigroup estimates is invested in commodity markets stuck in a tug-of-war between supply and demand.

Prospects for an outright shrinkage of the central bank’s roughly $4.5 trillion ledger didn’t discourage markets one bit — at least on Wednesday.

Will investors stick around? The answer may be in the oil market.