Vanguard

Eight of the top 10 have less than $100 million in assets.

Though the fees are controversial, there may not be an easy way for the industry to abandon them.

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.

CEO Tim Buckley acknowledges at the Morningstar conference that the firm is trying to convert investors to its Personal Advisory Services business, but won’t specify the target.

Most inflows in the space went to products with over 80% of their assets in index funds, new research from Morningstar finds.

These double-digit returns came at a price lower than the rest of the sector.

Private insurers pay for less than 3% of care, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Rather than developing a new family of ETFs, the asset manager created them as a share class within its existing mutual funds.

The mutual funds and ETFs that ranked at the bottom of the sector still benefited from a “long-running bull market,” an expert says.

Expense ratios were more than twice the industry average.

The products have benefited from the past decade of “economic expansion and bull market for risk assets,” one expert says.