Andrew Shilling

“These are tracking the industries that are supporting the economy and will continue in the post-pandemic world,” an expert says.

Among the decade’s worst performers — those with more than $1 billion in assets under management — were a handful of products with stellar short-term returns.

The decade’s top-performers have produced returns of more than four-times their industry peers this year.

“Investors are going into lower, more passive mutual funds because they don't want to pay the fees,” an expert says.

“Expense ratios matter to most people, particularly when you're looking at these mostly passive funds,” an expert says.

Despite some impressive short-term gains, more than half underperformed their peers over the decade.

Some of the biggest laggards have managed short-term gains of more than 40%.

More than half of these funds have fees higher than 75 basis points.

From regulations to taxes, big changes could be in the offing.

Fees for the category's best performing mutual funds and ETFs are much like the price of bullion: expensive.

If clients “looked just three months ago, these numbers would be glaringly different,” an expert says.

The 20 top-performers have generated gains well over 50% in the first seven months of the year.

Despite besting the broader market over the long-term, those at the top have underperformed in the first half of 2020.

The current proposal “would lead to worse outcomes for plan participants as plan sponsors shied away from assessing ESG risks in selecting investments,” the research firm says.

“No one could have envisioned what this virus was going to do to the commercial real estate space,” an expert says.

Investors may be put off by the costs associated with these funds, which had an average expense ratio of more than triple their peers.

The leaders raked in a combined $949 billion over the past decade.

Here's how the largest groups have fared during unprecedented market activity.

The funds had posted gains over the past decade, but have suffered losses amid this year's coronavirus-driven volatility.

“We started with 40 people just marching, and it turned into 15,000," an advisor says.