Active management

After years of posting disappointing results, Fidelity's actively managed mutual funds showed signs of improvement in 2017, excluding the flagship Fidelity Magellan.

Portfolio managers from T. Rowe Price, Fidelity and Pimco are among those nominated for the awards.

The funds with the biggest AUM declines didn’t badly underperform, but investors often found cheaper alternatives.

Dec. 18: The proposed active offerings are set to debut in February.

With plans to offer six new funds, the passive investing giant is seeing strategic beta as an opportunity, not a threat, says one contributor.

The $284 billion asset manager aims to track municipal bond prices in its mutual funds with the service.

The seven funds are expected to begin trading in the first quarter.

After building an empire on passive funds, the world’s largest asset manager is readying a suite of actively managed funds.

The funds gained an average of 13.3% a year over the past decade, which began before the financial crisis.

The asset manager’s institutional assets have grown in each of the past five years, increasing about 45% since 2011.