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Despite some impressive short-term gains, more than half underperformed their peers over the decade.

The decisions entrench a prolonged decline for prime funds, and could hurt a market that thousands of companies rely on for funding.

While most of the issues were resolved by midday, the interruptions sent a shudder across Wall Street.

Hundreds of strategies that outperformed in backtesting are failing to live up to their hype once they are packaged up and sold as ETFs, a study finds.

Funds focused on the sector lost more than $2.4 billion in August, the most since 2016.

Firms had problems related to equities, options and cryptocurrency trading as well as slow websites and mobile apps.

The ready-made strategies have been around for years, but in an era of fee wars and ETFs its popularity is exploding.

Increasing Black representation poses challenges that adding women may not: Most women elected to boards had professional connections with the white men who still dominate boardrooms.

About two dozen advisors are using the software now, and the firm is making changes based on their feedback, an executive says.

Despite besting the broader market over the long-term, those at the top have underperformed in the first half of 2020.

The leaders raked in a combined $949 billion over the past decade.

A “distribution bump” from the commission-free trading trend that took hold late last year may be behind the surge, analysts say.

Some of the industry’s biggest players are taking a wait-and-see approach as active, non-transparent funds take their crucial first steps.

The central bank is now the third largest holder of the $54 billion iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD).

Major donor-advised fund providers said they’re using webinars, podcasts, social media and emails to nudge clients to give.

The average employer match was 4.3% of pay, according to a 2019 Vanguard report.

"It's now June and if you’ve been on a deserted island for the last five months you couldn’t have fathomed the movements we’ve seen," an expert says.

As liquidity disappeared amid the coronavirus-sparked mayhem, veteran fixed-income portfolio manager Gemma Wright-Casparius saw opportunities.

Crush of inflows to money-market funds has come even as the funds’ own yields approach zero.

The combined fund, expected to finalize later this year, will retain the Windsor name and continue to focus on large- and mid-cap value stocks.