Vanguard

The firm says it will focus the new funds on tech, demographics, urbanization, climate change and emerging global wealth.

Executives say the race to zero in fund fees and improvements in data and analytics are among the top issues impacting asset management.

With the reductions, nearly all of the firm’s index funds will have total net expenses lower than comparable Vanguard products.

The ETFs that bested the strategy “offer exposure to extremely narrow and volatile segments of the market,” an expert says.

The world’s largest asset manager and robo advisory platform may soon have competition at the top.

Years of trial and error and research behind the scenes and continuing client-facing education resulted in the portfolio-mix sweet spot.

The top 20 collected nearly $1 trillion in combined assets.

The company is “in the beginning stages of building out those capabilities,” according to a spokesman.

The SEC has just approved an ETF with negative fees — a sign that fund managers need to continue adjusting to their straitened circumstances.

Experts grappled with the industry's biggest disruptors at the investment information giant's annual conference.