Equities

Funds that buy debt backing sustainability matters grew 12% from the end of 2019 globally, reaching a record $209.5 billion of assets, data show.

Advisors, nervous about the exposure, say they are struggling to get clients to switch things up.

As the S&P 500 flirts with record-high levels, many participants are mulling whether it’s time to take profits or push for more returns.

Fees for the category's best performing mutual funds and ETFs are much like the price of bullion: expensive.

The firm has struggled to make money this year amid the market volatility sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The fast money has more than three times the impact on equity valuations than long-term investors like pension funds, according to a recent paper.

Almost 90% of smaller fund managers would no longer have to report their investments and their firms would save $136 million a year, the agency estimates.

The industry outranked asset classes including private equity and venture capital, which have historically ranked higher in a Credit Suisse survey.

Banks and insurers have trailed the S&P 500 by 20 percentage points, their worst performance at this point of a year on record.

Economic damage wrought by the coronavirus has not stopped investors from piling into the companies able to churn out profits in the stay-at-home world.

CEO Dan Arnold says the pandemic “will create some structural change across the market and the industry.”

The fund ditched its tail-risk protection weeks before the coronavirus sent stocks into a tailspin, according to people familiar with its decision.

The smart-beta pioneer and sub-advisor to money managers has re-calibrated its forecasts after the coronavirus-induced crash reshaped markets.

Proponents make them a standing core equity holding, but not all advisors are sold. One calls them "marketing schemes."

The rout in Asian equity markets this year has not been for the faint-hearted.

Morningstar finds that active managers have left a lot to be desired.

The negative superlatives for American stocks are piling up.

More bad news about the impact of the coronavirus further sapped investor spirits.