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The funds with the biggest AUM declines didn’t badly underperform, but investors often found cheaper alternatives.

For the first time, fund managers must disclose a breakdown of their fees to banks, insurers and other distributors.

Dec. 11: Asset management experts say these topics will be key drivers in 2018.

These three bellwethers offer insight into the forces that will shape the investing landscape in the decade to come.

Factor-based approaches to index investing have won heaps of investment. Can it last?

More deals are expected in a post-DoL world, Schwab executives say.

Although bigger may be better for the fund giants, passive strategies may be blurring the inherent value of securities.

The funds will classify stocks using artificial intelligence.

Data reported by FUSE Research.

Coming up with a solution will be challenging because of U.S. sanctions.

After building an empire on passive funds, the world’s largest asset manager is readying a suite of actively managed funds.

Like lagging retail giants, wealth management firms risk ruin by failing to recognize changing customer expectations or by squandering the opportunity to evolve their business model.

The longer the trend continues, the more likely its effects could spread to bank earnings and the economy.

“People need to know what the rules are,” an industry consultant says.

The delay was partly prompted by BlackRock’s testimony that policymakers, not index compilers, should set corporate governance standards.

The fund will give investors exposure to noninvestment-grade bonds for less than half the cost of its flagship high-yield offering.

The move comes as part of a wider push to deepen the firm’s offerings across income-generating assets.

The funds gained an average of 13.3% a year over the past decade, which began before the financial crisis.

The asset manager’s institutional assets have grown in each of the past five years, increasing about 45% since 2011.

The manager expects the rule would remove some of the impediments faced by wannabe ETF issuers.