Capital markets

The cost of acquiring small account customers and pressure from incumbents quickly developing their own digital brands may be weighing on the popular app.

Industry headwinds from costs and fees remain as relentless as ever.

Mariner Wealth's and Mercer Advisors' deals for RIAs totaled over $3 billion in AUM in just two weeks.

The SEC may have had good intentions, but the guidelines have distorted markets and reinforced the allure of companies that forego the IPO.

New actively managed municipal bond ETFs from the firm have attracted $50 million in assets since their inception in October.

Its purchase includes the manager’s mutual fund and ETF businesses.

Both already use the fintech company’s technology to market their products to advisors.

“I admit I’m nervous about how our clients will react,” AQR's Cliff Asness wrote following the worst run in global equities in six years.

Sentieo is a financial research platform that allows analysts to do financial research, annotate documents and collaborate with colleagues all within the same software.

The good times in munis aren’t likely to last as the Fed’s push to boost interest rates will hamper future results, an expert says.

CEO Jamie Price and other executives met with some 1,000 prospective advisors after inking one of the largest M&A deals in the IBD space this year.

The sector historically has been “resilient to economic downturns,” ProShares wrote in the new fund’s prospectus.

The new factor-based products will extend the manager’s focus on data-driven investing.

A total of 86 publicly traded companies approved new repurchase plans so far this year. That’s nearly twice as many as all of 2017.

The insurance-related securities market has grown as pension and hedge funds seek diversified bets less tied to interest rate or stock market swings.

There’s been an uptick in asset managers building ESG analysis into their investments this year, while more have shunned firearms holdings.

An index of asset managers and custody banks has lost almost a quarter of its value this year.

Disappointing revenue and profit forecasts from Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet helped push the Nasdaq further into a correction.

With the number of U.S. indexes far outstripping stocks, anxiety is mounting over whether the funds artificially inflate share prices, fueling bubbles.