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.