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While bond investor anxiety previously focused on how the funds respond to abrupt withdrawals, skeptics are now homing in on secondary trading.

Fixed-income products designed to minimize interest rate risk are among the leaders.

Just five asset managers hold about 80% of the new money added to the municipal-bond market this year.

With markets near certain that the Fed will lower rates this month, debate has shifted to the size of the cut and its impact.

Investors wary of an intensifying trade war have piled into the firm's bond products, boosting net flows to $151 billion, according to the company.

While some firms have been successful at leveraging technology to scale sales and marketing processes, others have failed.

A search for returns in less liquid assets may blur the transparency of real portfolio value.

The correlation between fees and performance is not “apples-to-apples when taking the funds’ underlying exposures into account,” an expert says.

The decision marks a shift for firm, which has largely ridden its equity-fund offerings.

Expense ratios associated with the new products range from 0.05% to 0.07%.

The transition is expected to take place within the next 12 to 18 months, however the firm says it will still manage the products’ underlying investments.

Regulators are asking cannabis fund providers to produce third-party legal opinions verifying they don’t violate state or federal laws.

The brokerage may pay about $2 billion for the additional advisory clients, according to reports.

The $3.7 million fund returned more than 40% in the second quarter, outperforming all domestic non-leveraged ETFs.

A new report asks whether the products have the potential to spark another crisis despite being created at the urging of the SEC to reduce risk.

The firm has shed fund holdings in defensive sectors such as health care and consumer staples.

The firm’s complicated relationship with these fees is indicative of the industry’s overall struggle to find a balance between appropriate compensation and transparency.

The average expense ratio among the leading 20 is nearly 40 basis points cheaper than what investors paid on average last year.

The SEC and FINRA say they’ve held a series of discussions with market participants on how decades-old custody rules might apply to virtual coins.

Outstanding options riding the world’s most heavily traded government debt product are near the highest level this year.