Active management

Investors in his $1.4 billion closed-end offering saw huge gains as a result of stellar performance from his $88.9 billion Income Fund.

Many firms are finding new ways to incorporate computer models and data science into their research.

Advisers have turned into the new active investment managers.

Active management supplemented by local knowledge cannot be easily manufactured or automated, an expert says.

The firm is pushing into Europe and Asia-Pacific, but rolling back on the products that brought 75% of its assets in favor of actively managed funds.

In an effort to weather the assault from index funds, a Scottish firm cuts fees but bets that performance is still key to attract clients.

The firm’s growth last quarter was the biggest since the 2014 departure of its co-founder Bill Gross.

Actively managed mutual funds and ETFs that own domestic stocks experienced $98.5 billion in net redemptions in the first six months of 2017, according to Morningstar.

For those worried that high valuations guarantee trouble in the markets, data shows pricey equities can get even pricier.

Fundamental indexing is drawing more scrutiny, and greater concern about how these indexes are assembled.

Prices that reached an almost seven-month high in June have now dropped for five straight weeks, the longest slump this year.

The influence of index and ETFs is growing, but it's not destabilizing yet.

East Capital’s founder says investors struggling to demonstrate value in the face of competition from ETFs should take a lesson from investing in Russia.

Even though they have posted positive returns, debt and equities markets have been moving in opposite directions for the better part of two decades.

Despite the trend away from actively managed mutual funds, the firm is bolstering advertising efforts and adding new products to lure clients.

Many new products are great for the industry and not so great for our clients.

More than half of active equity products have beaten their benchmark indexes in the first quarter, JPMorgan Chase data show.

Although the funds experienced a combined $586 billion in outflows over the last two years, this segment reported inflows of $41 billion.

Prudential’s asset management unit is taking a different approach as firms like Vanguard are forcing industrywide retrenchment.

Studies show smart beta beating their benchmarks more than active managers.