ETFs

The new tool is aimed at lowering costs for investors.

Many new products are great for the industry and not so great for our clients.

For a solution, look to deficiencies found in the Markowitz model, one manager says.

Jim McNamara, head of a business that sells the firm’s mutual funds and ETFs to third parties, will depart after two decades.

Low costs and an overall shift toward passive are only part of the reasons why they are leaving such an impact, according to four experts’ testimonies.

Volatility has opened the door to a deeper examination of the sector in some of the most widely held funds. Plus; other industry highlights.

Actively managed funds saw the majority of the largest outflows this year as investors flocked to less expensive passive alternatives.

Money’s not leaving the markets, but rather moving in an “old fashioned” rotation that favors value stocks and small-caps at the expense of tech.

How new competing international and small-cap ETFs stack up.

Several new funds from the manager are aimed at providing approaches that have seen years of institutional success.

Contrary to what some people think, their tax burden may not decline after leaving the workplace for good.

QIM’s Tactical Aggressive Fund ended May up 13%, adding on to a 9.2% gain in April.

The money manager created the new role in order to accelerate the growth of the funds.

Central bank rate policies are artificially driving up asset prices while creating little growth in the real economy, the Janus bond fund manager suggests.

After yanking $719.9 million from a technology fund in May, investors poured $1.78 billion in one day to another fund in the sector.

Although the funds experienced a combined $586 billion in outflows over the last two years, this segment reported inflows of $41 billion.

Prudential’s asset management unit is taking a different approach as firms like Vanguard are forcing industrywide retrenchment.

The new offering is intended to offer passive index and ETFs that track markets as well as active.

The outflows have rekindled a popular concern that the funds could portend the start of a liquidity crunch.

The exploding popularity of quants has created a gold rush for fund developers.