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Markets have been whipsawed by mounting concern over softer economic data and President Trump’s trade wars with major partners.

Geopolitical risk, dovish central banks and an aging business cycle are reinforcing bullish moorings in global debt.

Expenses have outpaced or matched revenue growth during the past four to five years, while aggregate fees declined almost 20%, a study found.

Bullion gains have intensified amid signs that the Fed and other central banks are turning more dovish on monetary policy.

The yield on Mozambique’s sole dollar bond, due 2023, has fallen almost 5 percentage points this month to 11%.

Of the 468 hedge funds that used Goldman Sachs’ prime brokerage services in the past decade, half have shuttered.

Opening the door to retail money comes with risks, including the danger of exposing financial neophytes with relatively limited savings to complex investments.

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.