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

The “materiality of risks with not considering" the strategy is the primary consideration for its implementation, a UBS survey finds.

The largest increases came from the only firms in the sector reporting jumps of at least 20% or more in 2018.

Under new leadership, the firm’s iShares unit intends to create funds that it says go beyond traditional sectors and geographic focuses.

More than 25% of the products were sold with shorter or static maturities in the first quarter, compared with only 10% for the same period last year.

The losers “offer exposure to extremely narrow and volatile segments of the market,” an expert says.

Fee pressure and improvements in data and analytics are among the leading issues the industry faces today, executives say.

A Financial Action Task Force note on digital asset oversight is “one of the biggest threats to crypto today,” a research executive said.

Each of these funds has its own way of adding high-octane assets into clients' portfolios.

Bonds were sold to build a development with a water park and Venice-style bridges. Now a Florida community is going bankrupt.

Worries over weak U.S. data, the impact of President Trump’s multi-front trade war and the interest rate outlook has whipsawed investors in recent weeks.

Players on both sides of the fence are being forced to rethink past practices.

Following two recent mega-mergers in the bullion space, the fight to secure dominance is intensifying.

The firm is “looking to aggressively compete” by lowering and simplifying the fees on its advisory platforms, a top executive says.

The firm expects shareholders will save an estimated $3.2 million, annually.

The firm plans to focus on raising money for products that lock up capital for several years, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Mainstays of the sector like Commonwealth, Cambridge and Northwestern Mutual are contributing to it, but smaller firms are also driving change.

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

Activist investors have taken large stakes in at least 100 of the products so far this year.