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Getting clients to understand how volatility is an essential part of investing isn’t easy, but is even harder when stocks had been in the midst of an uninterrupted bull run.

Comparing gridiron performance and market returns is more fun than leftover nachos.

The products exceeded their previous monthly flows record by nearly 30%.

Clients in Asia are among the beneficiaries, gaining the ability to trade U.S. products during their daylight hours.

The index rose more than 300 points, reaching its highest close ever.

Investors chasing upside this year have contributed to a historically significant level of bullish positions, data show.

Short interest on the largest ETF tracking the S&P 500 is the lowest level on record.

Despite returns of about 8% last year, the products lagged behind the S&P 500’s 22% climb.

Record-high stocks, growing geopolitical risk. Is our current market becoming eerily similar to 1972?

Sponsors can bill the products however they’d like, but the bar to proving they work as advertised is high.

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

Improved prospects for tax legislation propelled the latest boost in equities.

Some fund managers specializing in distressed debt smell an opportunity.

Plans from S&P and MSCI to recategorize internet and media stocks would blend some of the year’s best-performing equities with the worst.

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.

Managers are asking the SEC to relax constraints it imposed on the funds as they become the fastest growing products for investing in equities.

The holdings in each of the three new offerings are rated A to BBB.

Nearly 17 million investors will use the technology by 2021, a rise of 1.8 million compared to last year, Aite says.