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It’s impressive how quickly a two-day plunge affects the tone of bulls.

Proponents have long touted the new structure as a way for the industry to compete with mutual funds.

With fewer people investing in active strategies and more options to choose from, competition is extremely fierce.

“We have to have a roadmap for how to deploy capital in this environment,” says the global head of alternatives for the firm’s asset management arm.

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Nearly all of your efforts should revolve around your website, showing who you are and why your firm is different, says marketing expert Dan Sondhelm.

The major issuers of leveraged products, which trade under the ProShares and Direxion trademarks, have each posted inflows of over $2.8 billion this month.

The central bank’s pledge to buy investment-grade credit and certain funds helped spark a rally in higher-rated debt.

The manager may collect over $4 million per year for managing a separate portfolio of commercial mortgage-backed securities issued by government agencies.

Asset managers may need to reassess the assumption that’s become widely held in recent years: that inflation is dead.

The asset manager will serve “as a third-party vendor to operationalize these purchases and transact with the primary dealers,” the New York Fed said.

The iShares fund saw the second-biggest inflow in its 18-year history after the central bank said it would begin buying corporate bonds and credit ETFs.

After becoming unmoored in recent weeks as bond market liquidity dried up, funds that stand to benefit from the central bank’s buying are now rallying.

In need-for-speed markets lashed by the spreading coronavirus, this breed of rules-based trading is paying off.

The funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

The fund paid out about $150 billion in redemptions Thursday, all in cash.

The platform aims to "assist … in meeting demands for redemptions” as alarm over the coronavirus continues to cause strains in short-term funding markets.

The firm had received margin calls from counterparties including BNP Paribas after its trades went awry, people familiar with the matter said.

The VanEck fund’s sell-off was so violent that it triggered the SEC’s alternative uptick rule.

Lenders have been ringing up investment firms and hedge funds to garner interest in financing to companies in industries upended by the coronavirus.