S&P

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.

The firm seeks to diversify investment risk for clients by combining six internally managed liquid alternative strategies. Plus; other launches.

Quality is a nebulous assessment and can change over the years — remember Sears? — but appears to portend outperformance using most companies’ measures.

The bank’s asset management unit has approached ETF Securities and Global X in an effort to expand its lineup.

The moves may push some shareholders to rebalance their positions, likely at a cost.

The recent plunge raised suspicions that quants had caused or exacerbated the sell-off.

Thanks to differentiated bets on stocks, equity mutual funds beat benchmarks across the board.

The resurgent threat of inflation and higher bond yields helped trigger a burst of volatility.

The last time the industry’s largest ETF experienced redemptions close to this pace was before the financial crisis.

Credit Suisse said it will liquidate an ETP, effectively wiping out a fund whose market value topped $2 billion just three weeks ago.

The major indexes are now down for the year.