Equity market

Many U.S. stock funds posted double-digit percentage gains, but international equities fared even better. Which were the biggest winners?

Short interest on the largest ETF tracking the S&P 500 is the lowest level on record.

Despite returns of about 8% last year, the products lagged behind the S&P 500’s 22% climb.

Record-high stocks, growing geopolitical risk. Is our current market becoming eerily similar to 1972?

Passive funds are the decisive victor in attracting cash.

The aim of the so-called systematic internalizer is to lift some of the regulation’s most onerous reporting requirements from its trading partners.

Improved prospects for tax legislation propelled the latest boost in equities.

They will incorporate trade data from as far back as 2014.

Plans from S&P and MSCI to recategorize internet and media stocks would blend some of the year’s best-performing equities with the worst.

One alternative tactic, though expensive, includes buying put options on equities or an index, according to the team.

There are things to learn from that debacle. Just don't overdo it.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

After spending a week holed up with several dozen employees in a New York hotel, the $1.4 billion hedge fund manager returned to Florida with a new focus.

When the current bull market fever subsides (or crashes), dividend investing will regain some of its lost appeal, writes an expert.

The firm wants to adopt a new benchmark that would add specialty REITs to the mix.

In addition to launching new smart beta funds, the firm may look to expand into “a whole host of different asset classes,” according to one executive.

The real concern is not just that actively managed funds could disappear but that the entire market could be left for dead.

Opened in the Roaring Twenties, the Massachusetts Investors Trust has weathered 16 recessions, roughly 20 bear markets and worse.

JPMorgan projects net corporate issuance of emerging market debt at just $22 billion for the rest of the year.