Capital markets

For clients’ portfolios that need international diversity, these funds focus on the region.

The math wizards of the investment world are hoping to disrupt the established giants of the trillion-dollar credit market.

New products give institutional investors a fresh way to exploit the rise of machines.

An unprecedented 58 funds were closed in the six months through June, marking the industry’s worst-ever start to a year.

Ukraine, Nigeria and Kazakhstan offer opportunities because local developments dominate the direction of their markets, the M&G fund manager said.

Investors plowed into bullion-backed funds after the U.S. and China reached a truce in their trade war.

Eight of the top 10 have less than $100 million in assets.

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

The aggregator has bought 22 firms with $7.1 billion AUM since 2016.

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.

Though the fees are controversial, there may not be an easy way for the industry to abandon them.

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

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.

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

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