ETFs

The current impact of fund rebalancing on front-month VIX futures is about 20% of daily volume on the index’s contracts.

Funds' past performance is no guarantee of future performance — but if planners don't evaluate the past, how can they best communicate investment decisions to clients? Here's how to balance on that tightrope.

Double-digit gains produced by the mutual funds and ETFs with the most AUM were not enough to best the broader market.

Risky assets outside the U.S. are seeing fresh flows as a potential trade deal with China buoys expectations for global growth.

Banks are hoping strategies like technology-enabled portfolio trading will help them grab a bigger slice of the shrinking fixed-income pie.

Clients opened 142,000 new accounts last month after Schwab escalated the brokerage industry's price war.

Rather than disclosing their portfolios every day like conventional ETFs, the nontransparent products will reveal their holdings at least once a quarter.

Those that shorted the market suffered “steep losses,” while market-neutral products posted “modest gains.”

The metal’s price has dipped from its high in September amid a raft of good news that has boosted investors’ risk appetite.

Data reported by the Investment Company Institute.

The SEC's recently passed ETF modernization rule is just one regulatory change industry leaders expect will impact asset management in the years ahead.

With an average gain of nearly 40%, the following mutual funds and ETFs are narrowly invested in the most attractive segments of the market.

As the sector grows to over $30 trillion in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, one popular approach consists of excluding offenders.

The large number of closures in equities and “other” categories could not be offset by new additions, Index Industry Association research shows.

The SEC’s recently passed ETF modernization rule, which expands choice in the market, “is probably the end of the mutual fund industry.”

Appetite for cyclical plays like financials has picked up as trade negotiations between the U.S. and China show signs of progress.

Despite their high fees and double-digit returns, nearly all have even outperformed themselves so far this year.

Worries about the proliferation of new funds were high at the first Bogleheads conference without the company’s former leader.

Strategies may include building out RIA channels and cash sweep programs in efforts to make up for revenue declines.

The top 20 nearly doubled their gains over the last year, data show.