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More than half of them track the industry’s top-performing category.

Direct lenders, including hedge funds and buyout firms, are prepared to spend billions to lure borrowers away from the $1.2 trillion leveraged loan market.

“There definitely will be people who don’t win in this,” says Altruist founder Jason Wenk.

So much faith has been put on the partial trade deal with China that stocks have nearly recovered since President Trump’s first round of tariffs on imports.

Even as new technology and changing client demands force firms to constantly upgrade, advisors have potent defenses to help them stay competitive.

Funds that track custom-built indexes often seek exposure to securities based on factors like ESG and strategies that would typically be actively managed.

A major driver of growth has been the “increased awareness” of advantages like tax efficiency, liquidity and transparency, according to Bank of America.

In a business increasingly dominated by inexpensive index funds, the young juggernaut succeeded by actually picking good investments.

As asset managers create younger wholesaling teams, they're also adapting models that leverage digitally savvy hybrid roles.

There's a way to offer sound counsel to clients and also permit them the opportunity to take a profitable flier from time to time.

Despite the exodus, all of the mutual funds and ETFs on the list posted net gains for the year.

The four new types of funds use a so-called proxy basket and will publish some information about their portfolios every day.

The fund will track an index that divides the industry into five categories: pharmaceuticals, testing and analytics, cultivators, hemp and ancillary business.

Robo advice is “a feature, not a business,” one digital expert says

The $1.8 billion deal is expected to close in mid-2020.

Jeff Smith's dismissal was first announced in a memo by CEO Larry Fink and President Rob Kapito, who only said the executive had violated corporate policy.

"It's going to become increasingly more important for financial professionals to understand the potential benefits of sustainable investing," an exec says.

At a meeting last year, the firm’s CEO discussed how behavior would be held to a higher standard than rank-and-file employees, people familiar with the matter said.

“It’s going to become increasingly more important for financial professionals to understand the potential benefits of sustainable investing,” an executive says.