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While passive funds track an index, active managers can still beat the averages and earn the much-discussed small-cap premium.

A fund weighted against brick-and-mortar businesses dropped 13% while the industry’s largest retail product tripled the return of the broader benchmark.

Some may be afraid to deploy cash into stocks now because they think the market will tank sooner rather than later.

The Treasury is expected to sell a combined $99 billion of fixed-rate notes this week, in some of its largest offerings since 2010.

The average annualized return of the top 20 funds has been nearly 15%.

Investors slammed the sell button on passive products in February amid the return of volatility that saw a record jump in Wall Street’s fear gauge.

One topic under alleged examination is the monthly process through which prices of the benchmark’s futures contracts are calculated.

“Securities that offer souped-up returns are just too dangerous,” says Executive Vice President Jim Ross.

Investment firms are pushing into the country as financial reforms open access to an industry that’s expected to grow more than five-fold by 2030.

At some point, stock price gyrations became synonymous with bad performance. Actually, it’s "only a reflection of volatile movements in the market.”

Like selling a car, asset managers can list their products’ specifications, but that isn’t always enough.

Assets topped $6 trillion as investors continue to move money into passively managed funds.

The continued ascendancy of low-cost passive funds puts pressure on compensation overall, particularly in active management.

“It’s bad when this happens on a Friday, because then people get freaked out over the weekend.”

The convertible bond ETF has its heaviest weighting in the semiconductor industry.

Booms and busts both have the potential to create unrealistic outlooks on both ends of the performance spectrum.

This time inverse leveraged technology funds are at the center of the action.

While the S&P 500 has risen or fallen by more than 2% six times this year, it swung by twice that amount nine times in October 2008.

S&P 500 enjoys its biggest one-day jump since August 2015.

It’s been a miserable week for higher-risk markets, as a trade war edged closer and the tech sector was roiled by Facebook’s scandal.