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After a recent policy switch, many clients at the wirehouse can no longer use balances from their deposit accounts to purchase shares in these funds.

Double-digit gains produced by the mutual funds and ETFs with the most AUM were not enough to best the broader market.

Risky assets outside the U.S. are seeing fresh flows as a potential trade deal with China buoys expectations for global growth.

Self-directed brokerage accounts at the firm hold about 20% of their portfolios in cash.

The firm hasn’t made any decisions about advisor retention bonuses, but some top shareholders will earn tens of millions of dollars once the deal closes.

SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson Jr. said his office studied 15 years of data to assess how the firms utilized their power on hundreds of proposals.

“The market is actually using proxies for understanding ESG data,” says BlackRock’s global head of sustainable investing.

“If done correctly, dividend-yielding stocks are the gifts that keep on giving,” an expert says.

Banks are hoping strategies like technology-enabled portfolio trading will help them grab a bigger slice of the shrinking fixed-income pie.

Those that shorted the market suffered “steep losses,” while market-neutral products posted “modest gains.”

Financed by their personal savings, the team behind the machine-learning fund have harnessed their engineering acumen to invest in developed markets.

The Reverence Capital Partners-backed network would expand into nine subsidiary brands with 11,500 advisors under the deal, taking the selling firm private.

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Asset managers who flocked to safety in utilities and dividend stocks at the end of 2018 have seen their pain compounded by the latest risk-on rally.

Factors driving the dizzying pace of deals are revealed at Schwab’s Impact conference.

Fresh off rebranding its wealth management business to Avantax, the firm aims to support its smaller but more productive force.

With an average gain of nearly 40%, the following mutual funds and ETFs are narrowly invested in the most attractive segments of the market.

An extension from the agency comes amid warnings from brokerages that breaking out stock and bond analysis would threaten their own research businesses.

Advisors say they have concerns about an upcoming recession, according to a new survey.

Certain financial moves could push their income above a certain threshold, potentially triggering an income-related monthly adjustment.