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Asset managers are embracing new distribution technology, big data and alternative investment strategies.

FNG is one of a growing number of actively managed ETFs that have the freedom to tune their exposure whenever they want.

Managers will actively evaluate an asset’s characteristics — its value or momentum, for example — to determine what to buy.

Some of the same features that led to their unpopularity may also be what uncorrelated them from their peers, an expert says.

Withdrawals have topped $17.2 billion this year as investor money shifts to low-fee products.

The revamped fund from BP Capital will now track an index of companies that derive “significant revenue” from sustainable energy.

The activity began last Friday when 6.4 million shares hit the tape, fueling a record daily inflow for the fund.

Close to 80% of strategists cited competition from the mega-managers as their most significant challenge last year.

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.